- 1. n. mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green">yellow-green and brown">golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta Source: wordnet
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division Chrysophyta
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algaebrownchlorophyllclassificationdiatomseukaryoticfreshwatergolden-brownHeterokontophytamaskedmostlypigmentsubsumedsupersededsystemsxanthophyceaeyellowyellow-green
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