Definition of Rhodophyceae

1. Noun. Coextensive with the Rhodophyta: red algae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhodophyceae

Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Rhodesian malignant theileriosis
Rhodesian man
Rhodesian ridgeback
Rhodesian trypanosomiasis
Rhodesians
Rhodian
Rhodie
Rhodie bar
Rhodie bars
Rhodies
Rhododendron californicum
Rhododendron maxima
Rhododendron viscosum
Rhodope Mountains
Rhodophyceae (current term)
Rhodophyta
Rhodosphaera
Rhodosphaera rhodanthema
Rhodospirillium rubrum
Rhodymenia
Rhodymenia palmata
Rhodymeniaceae
Rhoeadales
Rhombozoa
Rhonda
Rhone
Rhone-Alpes
Rhone River
Rhone wine

Literary usage of Rhodophyceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"The Rhodophyceae, like the Cyanophyceae and Chlorophyceae, include a shell-boring form which has been found in the common razor-shelli. ..."

2. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting, William Henry Lang (1921)
"The Rhodophyceae are usually red or violet; sometimes, however, they have a dark purple or reddish-brown colour. ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... motile cells and yellow or brown chromoplasts suggest brown algae ; and the forms without chromoplasts do not suggest algae at all. (3) Rhodophyceae ..."

4. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"Red Algae (Rhodophyceae) These Algae are mainly marine forms, although some forms occur in streams. Besides the green they have a red pigment called ..."

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