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 -…

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

= chlorophyll, n.

Chlorophyll.

In early use: a blue-green pigment (believed to be a combination of chlorophyll and phycocyan) present in blue-green and certain other algae…

Xanthophyll; chlorophyll. rare and disused.