chlorophyll
Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.
A kind of
- pigment
Related words
- achlorophyllous
- protochlorophyll
- bacteriochlorophyll
- chlorophyll a
- chlorophyll b
- chlorophyll c
- white chlorophyll
- chlorophyll d
- chlorophyll f
- chlorophyllase
- chlorophyllic
- chlorophyllide
Word history
From French "chlorophylle".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “chlorophyll” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.