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CHROMOPLAST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chromoplast mean?
• CHROMOPLAST (noun)
The noun CHROMOPLAST has 1 sense:
1. plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids
Familiarity information: CHROMOPLAST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("chromoplast" 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)
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