Chrysosphaerales

plural noun

Chrys·​o·​sphae·​ra·​les

: an order of yellow-green unicellular or nonfilamentous colonial algae (class Chrysophyceae) having the cell content not transformed directly into a zoospore or other motile form

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Chrysosphaera genus of algae (from chrys- + -sphaera) + -ales

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