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plastid |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Plastid \Plas"tid\, Plastide \Plas"tide\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, a creator.] 1. (Biol.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under {Morphon}. --Haeckel. 2. (Bot.) One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: plastid n : any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein
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