Definition of Family characeae

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Characeae

family Ceratopogonidae
family Ceratopsidae
family Ceratostomataceae
family Cercidiphyllaceae
family Cercopidae
family Cercopithecidae
family Certhiidae
family Cervidae
family Cestidae
family Cetorhinidae
family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae
family Cheloniidae
family Chelydridae
family Chenopodiaceae
family Chermidae
family Chimaeridae
family Chinchillidae
family Chironomidae
family Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydomonadaceae
family Chloranthaceae

Literary usage of Family characeae

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

1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"On piles and sunken timber, salt ¡tiid brackish witter. Mobile Bay. Ulva enteromorpha Le Jolis. Mobile Bay, with the last. Class CHARALES.1 Family CHARACEAE ..."

2. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1903)
"Family, Characeae. Stoneworts. The stoneworts are algae which are found growing in the bottom of ponds, lakes, or slowly flowing creeks and rivers. ..."

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