Definition of Chromoplasts

1. chromoplast [n] - See also: chromoplast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromoplasts

chromophobe granules
chromophobes
chromophobia
chromophobic
chromophobic adenoma
chromophore
chromophores
chromophoric
chromophotography
chromophototherapy
chromophyte
chromophytes
chromoplast
chromoplastid
chromoplastids
chromoplasts (current term)
chromoprotein
chromoproteins
chromos
chromoshadow
chromoshadows
chromosomal
chromosomal RNA
chromosomal aberration
chromosomal anomaly
chromosomal deletion
chromosomal gap
chromosomal instability syndromes
chromosomal localization
chromosomal localizations

Literary usage of Chromoplasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"Chloroplasts are universally green except when they may be changing into chromoplasts. chromoplasts generally take their tint from the predominance of other ..."

2. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The chromoplasts of most flowers and fruits arise either directly from the rudiments of ... In shape the chromoplasts resemble the ellipsoidal granules ..."

3. Mendelism by Reginald Crundall Punnett (1907)
"due to the presence of yellow-colouring matter in the small bodies known as chromoplasts. Yellow chromoplasts are recessive to colourless ones. ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"The nucleus is distinct; there is a complex system of vacuoles; and there may be green, yellow, or brown chromoplasts, or none at all; meaning that some ..."

5. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1910)
"A, cell from the epidermis of the upper side of the calyx of Tropaeolum majus with crystalline chromoplasts; B, cells from the petal of Lupinus luteus with ..."

6. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"A, cell from the epidermis of the upper side of the calyx of Tropaeolum majus with crystalline chromoplasts; B, cells from the petal of Lupinus luteus with ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"The occurrence of chromoplasts in a reserve organ, as the tuberous root of the carrot, and the similar occurrence of chromoplasts and of reserve starch in ..."

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