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<botany> Division or Class of algae, coloured golden brown due to high levels of the xanthophyll, fucoxanthin. Mostly single celled or colonial. Also call Chrysomonadida by protozoologists.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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