Chara

See also: chara, Chára, and Chará

Translingual

Chara globularis

Etymology

Latin chara (“unknown kind of root”)

Proper noun

Chara f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Characeae – the stoneworts and related green algae.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Charophyta - superphylum; Charophyta - phylum; Charophyceae - class; Charales - order; Characeae - family; Chareae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): For species see Chara at World Register of Marine Species

References

• Chara (alga) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chara (Plantae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chara on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chara at AlgaeBase
• Chara at World Register of Marine Species
• Chara at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Chara at Encyclopedia of Life
• Chara at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Chara at Paleobiology Database

English

Proper noun

Chara (countable and uncountable, plural Charas)

1. (countable) A surname.
   1. A surname from Spanish Chará.
   2. A surname from Slovak Chára or Czech Chára.
2. A river in Yakutia, Russia; Russian Ча́ра (Čára)

   Synonyms: Chara River, River Chara

3. Ellipsis of Chara language.; A language found in Ethiopia. (ISO 639-3: cra)
4. Ellipsis of Chara people.; An ethnic group found in Ethiopia.

   Synonym: Charas

Derived terms

• Chara Language
• Chara People
• Chara River
• River Chara

 

Anagrams

• achar