yellow-green algae

1. 1.

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

   Broaderalga

   Narrowerconferva

   Part ofChrysophyta

Questions about yellow-green algae

What does yellow-green algae mean?

yellow-green algae means "any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment".

Is yellow-green algae a common word?

yellow-green algae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.