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CHROMOPLAST

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

• CHROMOPLAST (noun)

Sense 1

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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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