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Definition of Chlorophyll

1. Noun. Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms; there are four naturally occurring forms.

Definition of Chlorophyll

1. n. Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.

Definition of Chlorophyll

1. Noun. Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria. ¹

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Definition of Chlorophyll

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Medical Definition of Chlorophyll

1. The photosynthetic pigments of higher plants, but closely related to bacteriochlorophylls. Magnesium complexes of tetrapyrolles. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Chlorophyll

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

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Changes undergone by chlorophyll in passing through the Bodies of Animals ... Considering the large quantity of food containing chlorophyll consumed by ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"chlorophyll AND chlorophyll-GRANULES. chlorophyll-granules and the sun's rays.—chlorophyll-granules and the green tissue under the influence of various ..."

3. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1875)
"Some authors have imagined that chlorophyll is produced by a chemical decomposition of starch, while others think that starch is developed from ..."

4. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1887)
"On the ing and in division. other hand an entire uninjured chlorophyll-body is coloured brown with iodine, always as a result of the combined blue ..."

5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"The fluorescence of chlorophyll pigment is best shown by allowing rays of light, made convergent by passing through a double convex lens, to fall upon the ..."

6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"It is probable that many of the described modifications of chlorophyll depend on the variation in the proportion of acid present in the cell-sap, ..."

7. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Carbon dióxido, attracted to the chlorophyll sj'stem by virtue of the ... Two molecules of chlorophyll-ft might then give off a molecule of oxygen, ..."

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