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ALL meanings of thylakoid

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  • noun 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. 1
  • noun thylakoid a small membranous sac within a chloroplast of a plant 0
  • noun thylakoid a disk-shaped, membranous sac containing chlorophyll, in which the light reaction of photosynthesis occurs, found in blue-green algae and in the chloroplasts of green plants 0
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