division chlorophyta

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division chlorophyta - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  division Chlorophyta
      n 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 [syn:
           Chlorophyta, division Chlorophyta]