stramenopile

English

Etymology

Coined in 1989 by David J. Patterson, Latin stramen (“straw”) + pilus (“hair”), referring to an anterior flagellum with short hairlike extensions that forms during the life cycle of most members of the lineage.

Noun

stramenopile (plural stramenopiles)

  1. A heterokont of the clade (sometimes a superphylum) Stramenopiles.

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