green algae

Noun
  1. Algae that are clear green in color;
    Often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water (synset 101410439)
    is a type of: alga, algae - primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
    subtypes:
    • laver, sea lettuce - seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
    • pond scum - free-floating freshwater green algae
    • spirogyra - freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands
    • stonewort - any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits
    • desmid - freshwater green algae
    belongs to: 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
    same as: chlorophyte

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