The colouring matter of the leaves and other green parts of plants; found in the cells usually in the form of minute granules (chlorophyll-bodies or -…

= chromophyll n. at chromo-, comb._form affix 2.

Any of a class of yellow or white flavonoid pigments found in plants.

Botany. = chlorophyll, n., chromule, n.

†(a) Botany = chlorophyll, n.; (b) Mineralogy a greenish mineral, a variety of fahlunite, n., an altered form of iolite, n.

Any of a class of blue, violet, or red flavonoid pigments occurring in plants. Cf. anthocyanidin, n.

Chlorophyll.

the colouring principles of plants other than chlorophyll.

A black pigment found in the spores of various species of Aspergillus.

Xanthophyll; chlorophyll. rare and disused.