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chlorophyte, n. Bot.|ˈklɔərəʊfaɪt| [f. mod.L. Chlorophyta (H. G. L. Reichenbach Conspectus Regni Vegetabilis (1828) 23): see chloro-1, -phyte.] †1. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Chlorophyte,..applied to all plants having a successive evolution, and green parts or expansions. 2. [The mod.L. Chlorophyta was reassigned to a division of the algae by A. Pascher 1921, in Ber. d. Deutschen Bot. Gesellsch. XXXIX. 247.] An alga of the division Chlorophyta, typically having two kinds of chlorophyll, cellulose cell walls, and starch grains, as in land plants; a green alga.
1937E. E. Stanford Gen. & Econ. Bot. xiii. 346 Spirogyra..is so abundant, so characteristic, and so readily studied that it commonly passes as a ‘characteristic’ chlorophyte, which decidedly it is not. 1967Jrnl. Gen. Microbiol. XLVIII. 379 Light caused up to a 20-fold increase in the rate of nitrate and nitrite assimilation by the marine chlorophyte Dunaliella tertiolecta. 1979Nature 29 Mar. 447/2 Freshwater turtles may bear branched filamentous chlorophytes in the genus Basicladia. |