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pheopigment

pheopigment is the alternative form of phaeopigment.

Meaning of phaeopigment

Noun

phaeopigment (plural phaeopigments)

  1. A non-photosynthetic pigment which is the degradation product of algal chlorophyll pigments. It is commonly formed during and after marine phytoplankton blooms.

Forms of pheopigment

pluralpheopigments

Origin of pheopigment

From pheo- + pigment.

Questions about pheopigment

What is pheopigment the alternative form of?
Pheopigment is the alternative form of phaeopigment.

Words near pheopigment in the dictionary

  1. pheophorbides
  2. pheophytin
  3. pheophytinase
  4. pheophytinases
  5. pheophytins
  6. pheopigment
  7. pheopigments
  8. pheoplast
  9. pheoplasts
  10. pheos
  11. pheran

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pheopigment (page history and authors); phaeopigment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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