class ulvophyceae

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1. alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	class,
definition	:	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group)

member meronym	:	chlorophyta, division chlorophyta,
definition	:	large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants (noun.animal)