prasinophycean
prasinophycean noun: any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
Noun
prasinophycean (plural prasinophyceans)
- Any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
- Like other chlorophyte genomes with a low proportion of non-coding sequences, notably their prasinophycean and pedinophycean homologs [15, 18, 20 ], both chlorodendrophycean cpDNAs are very poor in small repeats (Table 1 ).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
- Synonyms:
- prasinophyte
Synonyms of prasinophycean
Forms of prasinophycean
| plural | prasinophyceans |
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Origin of prasinophycean
Prasinophyceae + -an
Questions about prasinophycean
- What does prasinophycean mean?
- Prasinophycean means any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
- What part of speech is prasinophycean?
- Prasinophycean is a noun.
- What is the plural of prasinophycean?
- The plural of prasinophycean is prasinophyceans.
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