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    DIVISION CHRYSOPHYTA

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     I. (noun) 

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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophytaplay

    Synonyms:

    Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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