Chrysophyta

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chrysophyta \Chrysophyta\ n.
     a division of mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the
     chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green
     and golden-brown algae and diatoms, including the
     Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some some
     classification systems superseded or subsumed by


     Heterokontophyta.
  
     Syn: division Chrysophyta.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Chrysophyta
       n : 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           systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta [syn:
           {division Chrysophyta}]