Definition of Characeae

1. Noun. Green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts.

Exact synonyms: Family Characeae
Generic synonyms: Protoctist Family
Group relationships: Charales, Order Charales
Member holonyms: Stonewort, Chara, Genus Chara, Genus Nitella, Nitella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Characeae

Chanukkah
Chao
Chao Phraya
Chaoshan
Chaozhou
Chaparian
Chapel Hill
Chaplin
Chaplinesque
Chapman
Chapman's antshrike
Chapman code
Chapultepec
Char
Chara
Characeae
Characean algae
Characidae
Characinidae
Charadrii
Charadriidae
Charadriiformes
Charadrius
Charadrius melodus
Charadrius morinellus
Charadrius vociferus
Charales
Charcot
Charcot's arteries
Charcot's disease

Literary usage of Characeae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The microscope, in its special application to vegetable anatomy and by Hermann Schacht (1853)
"In the characeae, as well as in most of the following groups of cryptogamous ... The antheridia are of a much more complex form in the characeae than in the ..."

2. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"... THE characeae are submerged aquatic plants, rooting in the ground and growing erect, attaining a height of ..."

3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Order I. characeae. The stem is distinctly segmented into nodes and internodes, the nodes being marked by the whorls of leaves which they bear. ..."

4. Bulletin by Natural History Society of New Brunswick (1882)
"BY OF MATTHEW, A M., FRSC « With Dr. TF Allen's Notes on the characeae. While much attention has been given by Geologists to the deposits of the early and ..."

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