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- noun Any of many
unicellular heterokont marine algae , of the order Dictyochales, that have asilica skeleton
Etymologies
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silicon + flagellate
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Rhizochromulina's fellow Dictyophyceans include the silicoflagellate Dictyocha, a 'heliozoan'
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