sea-lettuce family

1. 1.

   thin flat or tubular green algae

   SynonymsUlvaceaefamily Ulvaceae

   Broaderprotoctist family

   Part ofUlvales

Questions about sea-lettuce family

What does sea-lettuce family mean?

sea-lettuce family means "thin flat or tubular green algae".

What is another word for sea-lettuce family?

Close synonyms include Ulvaceae, family Ulvaceae. 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 sea-lettuce family a common word?

sea-lettuce family 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.