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Noun: Chlorophyta
  1. Large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants
    - division Chlorophyta

Type of: division

Part of: kingdom Protoctista, Protoctista

Encyclopedia: Chlorophyta