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trebouxiophycean

trebouxiophycean noun: any green alga of the class Trebouxiophyceae.

Noun

trebouxiophycean (plural trebouxiophyceans)

  1. Any green alga of the class Trebouxiophyceae.
    • 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 trebouxiophycean

pluraltrebouxiophyceans

Origin of trebouxiophycean

From translingual Trebouxiophyceae + -an.

Questions about trebouxiophycean

What does trebouxiophycean mean?
Trebouxiophycean means any green alga of the class Trebouxiophyceae.
What part of speech is trebouxiophycean?
Trebouxiophycean is a noun.
What is the plural of trebouxiophycean?
The plural of trebouxiophycean is trebouxiophyceans.

Words near trebouxiophycean in the dictionary

  1. trebling
  2. treblings
  3. Treblinka
  4. trebly
  5. trebouxioid
  6. trebouxiophycean
  7. trebouxiophyceans
  8. trebouxiophyte
  9. trebouxiophytes
  10. trebouxoid
  11. trebs

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