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pedinophycean

pedinophycean noun: any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.

Noun

pedinophycean (plural pedinophyceans)

  1. Any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.
    • Remarkably, seven of the atypical IR-encoded genes have also been observed in the IRs of pedinophycean and trebouxiophycean chloroplast genomes, suggesting that they were already present in the IR of the common ancestor of all core chlorophytes.2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of pedinophycean

pluralpedinophyceans

Origin of pedinophycean

From translingual Pedinophyceae + -an.

Questions about pedinophycean

What does pedinophycean mean?
Pedinophycean means any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.
What part of speech is pedinophycean?
Pedinophycean is a noun.
What is the plural of pedinophycean?
The plural of pedinophycean is pedinophyceans.

Words near pedinophycean in the dictionary

  1. pediments
  2. pedinellid
  3. pedinellids
  4. pedinid
  5. pedinids
  6. pedinophycean
  7. pedinophyceans
  8. pediocin
  9. pediocins
  10. pediococcal
  11. pedion

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