Definition of Heterokontae

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

Exact synonyms: Chrysophyceae, Class Chrysophyceae, Class Heterokontae
Group relationships: Chrysophyta, Division Chrysophyta
Generic synonyms: Class

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterokontae

Hessian boot
Hessian fly
Hessians
Hester
Hestia
Hesychast
Hesychast controversy
Hesychasts
Hesychian
Heterakis
Heteranthera
Heteranthera dubia
Heterobasidiomycetes
Heterodon
Heterodoxus spiniger
Heterokontae
Heterokontophyta
Heteromeles
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Heteromyidae
Heterophyes
Heteropoda
Heteroscelus
Heteroscelus incanus
Heterosomata
Heterostraci
Heterotheca
Heterotheca villosa
Heterotrichales
Hettie

Literary usage of Heterokontae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"... heterokontae, a small class the forms of which are of uncertain relationship. It seems even doubtful to the reviewer whether this group ..."

2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... that many modern writers classify them together under the head of heterokontae, in spite of the fact that some are unicellular, some flagellate, ..."

3. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"... is usually carried in a backward direction, pressed closely against the body of the cell. The heterokontae contains only a limited number of genera. ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"Yellow green Algae heterokontae IV. Containing only the green coloring matter known as chlorophyll. Stored product of assimilation usually starch. ..."

5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1910)
"... in the Chlorophyceae rather than Bohlin, and Blackman and Tansley, in transferring them to the heterokontae. The Flagellates are excluded and the ..."

6. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"... heterokontae. The inclusion of the algae in all college and most high school courses in botany renders some knowledge of this group imperative on the ..."

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