golden algae

English Thesaurus

1. algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	alga, algae,
definition	:	primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves (noun.animal)

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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta (noun.animal)