Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chlorophyta
1 sense of chlorophyta
Sense 1
Chlorophyta, division Chlorophyta -- (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 -- ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)