Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
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some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta;
[syn: Chrysophyta, division Chrysophyta]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
division Chrysophyta
n 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Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded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 Heterokontophyta [syn: Chrysophyta,
division Chrysophyta]