CHLOROPLAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chloroplast mean? 

• CHLOROPLAST (noun)
  The noun CHLOROPLAST has 1 sense:

1. plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis

  Familiarity information: CHLOROPLAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLOROPLAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chloroplast" is a kind of...):

plastid (any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein)

 Context examples 

Chloroplasts occur in cells of leaves and young stems of higher plants.

(Chloroplast, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Surrounded by a double membrane and contains circular DNA (though not enough to code for all proteins in the chloroplast).

(Chloroplast, NCI Thesaurus)

At first, the researchers tried to use spinach and kale cells, but the chloroplasts, the structures where photosynthesis occurs, were not stable enough to live outside the plant.

(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)

Mitochondria and chloroplasts.

(Extra-Nuclear Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)