zooxanthella (English, noun)
expansion: zooxanthella (plural zooxanthellae)
Senses:
glosses: Any of the yellow pigmentary particles, or minute corpuscles of yellow coloring matter, found in certain radiolarians.
tags: archaic
glosses: Any of various typically yellow-brown dinoflagellates (originally grouped as genus Zooxanthella) now assigned to the genera Symbiodinium and Amphidinium, notably found in coral reefs.
Forms:
form: zooxanthellae
tags: plural