noun
in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas
• Syn: ↑order Laminariales
• Hypernyms: ↑protoctist order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Phaeophyceae, ↑class Phaeophyceae
• Member Meronyms: ↑Laminariaceae, ↑family Laminariaceae
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: an order of marine brown algae that include many economically important kelps, are largely restricted to cold or polar seas, are distinguished by a complex and often very large sporophyte which is usually differentiated into well-defined holdfast, stipe, and blade, and have microscopic gametophytes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.