HETEROKONTAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heterokontae mean? 

• HETEROKONTAE (noun)
  The noun HETEROKONTAE has 1 sense:

1. all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length

  Familiarity information: HETEROKONTAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROKONTAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chrysophyceae; class Chrysophyceae; class Heterokontae; Heterokontae

Hypernyms ("Heterokontae" is a kind of...):

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

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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)