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Definition of Leucoplast
1. n. 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 of Leucoplast
1. Noun. (biology) An organelle found in certain plant cells, a non-pigmented category of plastid with various biosynthetic functions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leucoplast
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Leucoplast
1. Colourless plastid, that may be an etioplast or a storage plastid (amyloplast, elaioplast or proteinoplast). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucoplast
Literary usage of Leucoplast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"If the point of deposition is near the side of the leucoplast, as is generally
the case, the successive shells of starch are not of equal width, ..."
2. The Growth and Organization of the Starch Grain by Rollin Henry Denniston (1907)
"Young grain with leucoplast as thin uniform layer around the periphery. Fig. 15.
Young grain with two hila. Fig. 16. Young grains with two hila each. Figs. ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"If the starch grain is uniformly surrounded by the leucoplast during its ...
If the formation of a starch grain begins near the periphery of a leucoplast, ..."
4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"This is disposed in the interior of the leucoplast as one or more grains, which
at length stretch it enormously, or even rupture it. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"However, a leucoplast may become a chloroplast, as when potatoes are exposed to
the light and become green; and they FIG. 1.— Sectional view of four cells ..."
6. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1907)
"If the starch grain makes its beginning at the center of the leucoplast the
successive layers are about of equal thickness all around and the grain becomes ..."
7. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"The starch grain first appears in the leucoplast as a minute point. ... If the
bulk of the leucoplast lies on one side of the grain, this side of the grain ..."
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