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Webster 1913 Edition
Leucoplastid
{
Leu′co-plast
(lū′kō̍-plăst)
, Leuˊco-plas′tid
(-plăs′tĭd)
, } Noun.
[
Leuco-
+ Gr. πλάσσειν
to mold.] (Bot.)
One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
Definition 2024
leucoplastid
leucoplastid
English
Noun
leucoplastid (plural leucoplastids)
- (biology) A kind of unpigmented plastid involved in a wide range of essential biosynthetic functions.