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chromoplast Bot.|ˈkrəʊməplæst|
[f. chromo- 2 + -plast.]
A chromatophore that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, esp. one that contains no chlorophyll. Also attrib. So chromoˈplastid.
1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. 41 Those [granules] which have some color other than green—Chromoplastids, or chromoleucites. 1902[see chloroplast]. 1902E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 52 The chromatophores or chromoplastids. 1910R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 2) 37 The tint of the flower being due to the presence of yellow-colouring matter in the small bodies known as chromoplasts. 1913W. H. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity 40 Polemonium... It may be inferred that the yellow of flavum is a chromoplast colour. 1965Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 43 Occasionally small starch grains may occur in photosynthetically inactive chromoplasts. |