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HETEROKONTAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length
Synonyms:
Chrysophyceae; class Chrysophyceae; class Heterokontae; Heterokontae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Heterokontae" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Holonyms ("Heterokontae" is a member of...):
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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)
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