chlorophylln.
/ˈklɔːrəfɪl/, /ˈklɒrəfɪl/, U.S. /ˈklɔrəˌfɪl/ Botany and Chemistry.
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 -corpuscles). Its chemical composition is uncertain. It forms the colouring matter also of various green water-animalcules, e.g. Hydra viridis.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > pigment
chlorophyll1819
chromule1835
anthoxanthin1836
viridine1837
chlorophyllite1838
anthocyanin1853
phytochlore1866
chromophyll1882
aspergillin1891
phytochrome1893
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > of natural bodies
chlorophyll1819
chlorophyllite1838
xylochlo(e)ric acid1862
phytochlore1866
phycochrome1867
marennin1885
phytochrome1893
the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > plant pigments > green > chlorophyll
chlorophyll1819
chlorophyllite1838
leaf-green1839
phytochlore1866
phycochrome1867
phytochrome1893
1818 Pelletier & Caventou in Ann. de Chimie IX. 195 La matière verte des végétaux..Nous proposons de lui donner le nom de chlorophyle.]
1819 J. G. Children Ess. Chem. Anal. 287 Chlorophyle is the green colouring matter of the leaves of plants.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §57 When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by ‘chlorophyll’, which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called ‘green leaf’, we should see more precisely how far we had got.
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. iii. 88 The characteristic contents of the cells of parenchyma are grains of chlorophyll..to which the green color of foliage is wholly owing.
Compounds
chlorophyll-body n.
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1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 45 These green-coloured portions of protoplasm..designated Chlorophyll-bodies.
chlorophyll-cell n.
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1867 H. Spencer First Princ. (ed. 2) ii. xv. §119. 335 The upper stratum..is composed of chlorophyll-cells.
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chlorophyll-corpuscle n.
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chlorophyll-grain n.
chlorophyll-granule n.
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1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. viii. 109 The colouring matter is limited to very minute granules lying in the colourless fluid contents. These are called the chlorophyll granules.
1880 W. R. McNab Bot.: Outl. Morphol. & Physiol. (new ed.) i. 17 The chlorophyll granule consists of two parts; a colourless solid portion derived from the protoplasm..and a green colouring matter, the chlorophyll, which is diffused through and colours the granule.
Derivatives
chlorophyˈllaceous adj. [-aceous suffix] containing chlorophyll.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of or characterized by pigment
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [adjective] > of or having chlorophyll
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [adjective] > colouring of natural bodies
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 249 Forms belonging to the chlorophyllaceous series.
chloroˈphyllan n. ‘a substance contained in chlorophyll; probably identical with what is called crystalline chlorophyll’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 758 The spectrum of Hoppe-Seyler's chlorophyllan is the same as that of chlorophyll.
chloroˈphyllian adj. [compare French chlorophyllien] of or pertaining to chlorophyll.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of or characterized by pigment
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [adjective] > of or having chlorophyll
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [adjective] > colouring of natural bodies
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
1880 Nature 11 Mar. 438/2 He did not succeed in demonstrating any chlorophyllian activity by the evolution of oxygen.
chloroˈphyllite n. †(a) Botany = chlorophyll n.; (b) Mineralogy a greenish mineral, a variety of fahlunite n., an altered form of iolite n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > pigment
chlorophyll1819
chromule1835
anthoxanthin1836
viridine1837
chlorophyllite1838
anthocyanin1853
phytochlore1866
chromophyll1882
aspergillin1891
phytochrome1893
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > of natural bodies
chlorophyll1819
chlorophyllite1838
xylochlo(e)ric acid1862
phytochlore1866
phycochrome1867
marennin1885
phytochrome1893
the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > plant pigments > green > chlorophyll
chlorophyll1819
chlorophyllite1838
leaf-green1839
phytochlore1866
phycochrome1867
phytochrome1893
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 425 The name chloro~phyllite has been given by Pelletier and Caventou to the green colouring matter of the leaves of plants.
1841 Amer. Jrnl. Sc. 12 358 The aqueous content of the chlorophyllite.
chloroˈphyllous adj. characterized by, or of the nature of chlorophyll.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [adjective] > of or characterized by pigment
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [adjective] > of or having chlorophyll
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [adjective] > colouring of natural bodies
chlorophyllous1863
chlorophyllian1880
chlorophyllaceous1882
1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses 311 Gloss. Chlorophyllous, spoken of the leaf-cells when they..contain a..mass, or little pellets of chlorophyll.
1871 M. C. Cooke Fungi (1875) 117 No pure or chlorophyllous green.
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