division protista,
protista eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae
thallophyta used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens
division tracheophyta,
tracheophyta in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants
bryophyta,
division bryophyta a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
division pteridophyta,
pteridophyta containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
division spermatophyta,
spermatophyta seed plants; comprises the Angiospermae (or Magnoliophyta) and Gymnospermae (or Gymnospermophyta); in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots)
phanerogamae in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta
cryptogamia in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
pteropsida,
subdivision pteropsida used in former classifications to include all ferns and flowering plants and divided into the three classes Filicinae and Gymnospermae and Angiospermae
division gymnomycota,
division myxomycota,
gymnomycota,
myxomycota slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista
division lichenes,
lichenes comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi
basidiomycota,
basidiomycotina,
subdivision basidiomycota,
subdivision basidiomycotina comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
division eubacteria one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
cyanophyta,
division cyanophyta prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom; coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
division heterokontophyta,
heterokontophyta algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths; terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications
chrysophyta,
division chrysophyta mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta
division phaeophyta,
phaeophyta coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta
chlorophyta,
division 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
cynodontia,
division cynodontia a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth
authorities,
regime,
government the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
division -
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
whole an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"
frame one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
beginning the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable"
end (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
high point the most enjoyable part of a given experience; "the trumpet solo was the high point of the concert"
component,
ingredient,
constituent,
element,
factor an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system"
chukker,
chukka (polo) one of six divisions into which a polo match is divided
inning,
frame (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
game an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"
bout,
turn,
round a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
first period the first division into which the play of a game is divided
second period the second division into which the play of a game is divided
final period the final division into which the play of a game is divided
half one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
period a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
quarter clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
division -
a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
division -
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
division -
A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
division -
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
division -
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
division -
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
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division In mathematics, an arithmetic operation which is the inverse of multiplication.
division A biological taxon in botany, mycology and microbiology, a group of species, part of a kingdom and consisting of one or more classes
