Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chrysophyta

1 sense of chrysophyta

Sense 1
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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)
       => division -- ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)