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trophoplast

Today it means: Any of various organelles found in plant and algae cells, such as a chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, or gerontoplast; a plastid. Full definition →

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From tropho- + -plast. Coined by Arthur Meyer in 1883.

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