YELLOW-GREEN ALGAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow-green algae mean? 

• YELLOW-GREEN ALGAE (noun)
  The noun YELLOW-GREEN ALGAE has 1 sense:

1. any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment

  Familiarity information: YELLOW-GREEN ALGAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW-GREEN ALGAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("yellow-green algae" is a kind of...):

alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yellow-green algae"):

conferva (any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water)

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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)