(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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: xanthophyceae, chrysophyceae, bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by heterokontophyta
(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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: xanthophyceae, chrysophyceae, bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by heterokontophyta