Definition of chrysophyta Chrysophyta
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What does chrysophyta mean?
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| 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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta | ||
| division Chrysophyta | ||
| division the act or process of dividing | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
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chrysophyta
The golden-brown and orange-yellow algae; a diverse group of microscopically small algae which inhabit fresh and salt water, many being planktonic. They contain carotenoid pigments and may be unicellular, colonial, filamentous or amoeboid.
Part of speech
🔤- chrysophyta, noun, singular of chrysophytas / chrysophytae.
