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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.
Group relationships: Chlorophyta, Division Chlorophyta
Member holonyms: Order Ulvales, Ulvales, Order Volvocales, Volvocales, Order Zygnemales, Order Zygnematales, Zygnemales, Zygnematales, Chlorococcales, Order Chlorococcales, Oedogoniales, Order Oedogoniales
Generic synonyms: Class
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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