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CHRYSOPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chrysophyta mean? 

CHRYSOPHYTA (noun)
  The noun CHRYSOPHYTA has 1 sense:

1. 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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophytaplay

  Familiarity information: CHRYSOPHYTA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHRYSOPHYTA (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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta

Hypernyms ("Chrysophyta" is a kind of...):

division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("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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