trophoplast

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US/ˈtɹɑfoʊplæst/

noun

Any of various organelles found in plant and algae cells, such as a chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, or gerontoplast; a plastid.

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Meanings

nountrophoplast (plural trophoplasts)

plural trophoplasts

  1. datedbiologyAny of various organelles found in plant and algae cells, such as a chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, or gerontoplast; a plastid.

    In a paper on the same subject, A. Meyer proposes a somewhat different terminology. […] And since anaplasts, chromoplasts, and autoplasts are all nearly related in structure and origin, he includes them in the common term Trophoplasts.

    1883, Journal of Microscopy, page 239

Origin

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

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