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DIVISION CHRYSOPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta
Synonyms:
Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("division Chrysophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)
Meronyms (members of "division Chrysophyta"):
golden algae (algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll)
yellow-green algae (any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment)
Chrysophyceae; class Chrysophyceae; class Heterokontae; Heterokontae (all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length)
class Xanthophyceae; Xanthophyceae (yellow-green algae)
Bacillariophyceae; class Bacillariophyceae; class Diatomophyceae; Diatomophyceae (marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms)
Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales (yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae)
Holonyms ("division Chrysophyta" is a member of...):
kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals)
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