CLASS XANTHOPHYCEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Yellow-green algae

Synonyms:

class Xanthophyceae; Xanthophyceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("class Xanthophyceae" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)

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