Noun: 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
- division Chlorophyta
Type of: division
Part of: kingdom Protoctista, Protoctista
Encyclopedia: Chlorophyta