family characeae

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   green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts

   SynonymsCharaceae

   Broaderprotoctist family

   Part ofCharales

Questions about family characeae

What does family characeae mean?

family characeae means "green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts".

What is another word for family characeae?

Close synonyms include Characeae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family characeae a common word?

family characeae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.