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etiolins

etiolins is the plural of etiolin.

Meaning of etiolin

Noun

etiolin (usually uncountable, plural etiolins)

  1. (archaic, usually) A yellow pigment in plants grown without sufficient light; a precursor of chlorophyll.
    • The formation of a yellow pigment in small grains in the cells of plant structures grown in the dark has long been recognised. The pigment was known to be soluble in alcohol and was called "etiolin" by Pringsheim (1874) because it occurred in etiolated structures.1924, Katherine Hope Coward, “The lipochromes of etiolated wheat seedlings”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 18.5, page 1123

Questions about etiolins

What is etiolins the plural of?
Etiolins is the plural of etiolin.

Words near etiolins in the dictionary

  1. etiolating
  2. etiolation
  3. etiolations
  4. etiolative
  5. etiolin
  6. etiolins
  7. etiolize
  8. etiolized
  9. etiolizes
  10. etiolizing
  11. etiologic

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