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chloroplast

chlo·ro·plast
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [klawr-uh-plast, klohr-]
    • /ˈklɔr əˌplæst, ˈkloʊr-/
    • /ˈklɒr.ə.plɑːst/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [klawr-uh-plast, klohr-]
    • /ˈklɔr əˌplæst, ˈkloʊr-/

Definitions of chloroplast word

  • noun chloroplast a plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments, occurring in plants and algae that carry out photosynthesis 3
  • noun chloroplast a green, oval plastid containing chlorophyll and carotenoids and found in the cytoplasm of green plants and blue-green algae 3
  • noun chloroplast a plastid containing chlorophyll. 1
  • noun chloroplast (in green plant cells) a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. 1
  • noun chloroplast light-sensitive part of plant cell 1
  • noun chloroplast (cytology) An organelle found in the cells of green plants, and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place. 0
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Origin of chloroplast

First appearance:

before 1885
One of the 21% newest English words
First recorded in 1885-90; chloro(phyll) + -plast

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Parts of speech for Chloroplast

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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chloroplast popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • granum

    (in prescriptions) a grain.

  • plastid

    a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.

  • prochloron

    any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.

  • quantasome

    any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.

  • stroma

    Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.

  • thylakoid

    a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.
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