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phycocyanin

phycocyanin

English

Noun

phycocyanin (countable and uncountable, plural phycocyanins)

  1. (biochemistry) A pigment from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin, an accessory pigment to chlorophyll.