class heterokontae

English Thesaurus

1. all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	class,
definition	:	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group)

member meronym	:	chrysophyta, division chrysophyta,
definition	:	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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta (noun.animal)