chromoplastn.
/ˈkrəʊməplast/ Botany.
A chromatophore that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, esp. one that contains no chlorophyll. Also attributive.
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disc1835
crystalloid1863
autoplast1884
plastid1885
granum1894
primary endosperm nucleus1897
chromoplast1902
phragmoplast1904
plasmodesma1905
phragmosome1940
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > types of chromosome
chromoplastid1885
accessory chromosome1899
chromoplast1902
X1902
heterochromosome1904
idiochromosome1905
macrochromosome1905
allosome1906
autosome1906
monosome1906
sex chromosome1906
supernumerary1907
X chromosome1911
Y chromosome1911
univalent1912
euchromosome1914
W1917
monosome1921
tetrasome1921
trisome1921
heterosome1938
isochromosome1939
trisomic1939
metacentric1945
acrocentric1949
polycentric1953
Philadelphia chromosome1961
monocentric1979
1902 H. Wager in Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 333/1 As the cell grows they [sc. the chromatophores] may become converted into leucoplasts (starch-formers), chloroplasts (chlorophyll-bodies), or chromoplasts (colour-bodies).
1910 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 2) 37 The tint of the flower being due to the presence of yellow-colouring matter in the small bodies known as chromoplasts.
1913 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) 40 Polemonium... It may be inferred that the yellow of flavum is a chromoplast colour.
1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 43 Occasionally small starch grains may occur in photosynthetically inactive chromoplasts.
Derivatives
chromoˈplastid n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > chromosome > types of chromosome
chromoplastid1885
accessory chromosome1899
chromoplast1902
X1902
heterochromosome1904
idiochromosome1905
macrochromosome1905
allosome1906
autosome1906
monosome1906
sex chromosome1906
supernumerary1907
X chromosome1911
Y chromosome1911
univalent1912
euchromosome1914
W1917
monosome1921
tetrasome1921
trisome1921
heterosome1938
isochromosome1939
trisomic1939
metacentric1945
acrocentric1949
polycentric1953
Philadelphia chromosome1961
monocentric1979
1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. i. 41 Those [granules] which have some color other than green,—Chromoplastids, or chromoleucites.
1902 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 52 The chromatophores or chromoplastids.
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