Definition of Class chlorophyceae

1. Noun. Algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments.


Literary usage of Class chlorophyceae

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

1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"... for the old class Chlorophyceae cannot longer be maintained as a single group. Professor West's scheme is admittedly not original. ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"The sub-class Chlorophyceae may be defined as follows:—Thallus of very various form, one- or many-celled, coloured green by chlorophyll which is contained ..."

3. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"Species of Halimeda, however, calcified alga; belonging to the very different class Chlorophyceae, are important agents in reef-building and land-forming, ..."

4. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1918)
"... however, calcified algae belonging to the very different class Chlorophyceae, are important agents in reef-building and land-forming, yet are almost ..."

5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The principal classes * of algae are as follows: class chlorophyceae. 331. These arc the green algae, so called because the chlorophyll green is usually not ..."

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