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Definition of Chlorophyll b
1. Noun. A dark-green plant pigment having a brilliant green alcohol solution; generally characteristic of higher plants.
Medical Definition of Chlorophyll b
1. (CH3 at 7 replaced by CHO in the chlorophyll structure), magnesium(II) pheophytinate b [(pheophytinato b) magnesium(II)]; the chlorophyll generally characteristic of higher plants (including the Chlorophyta, Euglenaphyta, and green algae). Absent in other types of algae. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlorophyll B
Literary usage of Chlorophyll b
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Chlorophyll a differs from chlorophyll b in containing a lactam group, which is
suggested as ... chlorophyll b does not apparently contain a lactam group. ..."
2. An Introduction to the Chemistry of Plant Products by Paul Haas, Thomas George Hill (1917)
"In the brown algae chlorophyll a predominates, only about 5 per cent of the
mixture being chlorophyll b; in terrestrial plants, on the other hand, ..."
3. The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher (1921)
"... NH-CO chlorophyll b Chlorophyll a The chlorophylls are unstable compounds,
readily acted upon by acids or alkalies, and by the enzyme ..."
4. Carotinoids and Related Pigments: The Chromolipoids by Leroy Sheldon Palmer (1922)
"The ability of carotin to reduce chlorophyll b and thereby become oxidized is
unquestioned, as evidenced by its strong reducing action on ferric salts. ..."
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