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trophoplasts

trophoplasts is the plural of trophoplast.

Meaning of trophoplast

Noun

trophoplast (plural trophoplasts)

  1. (dated) Any of various organelles found in plant and algae cells, such as a chloroplast, chromoplast, leucoplast, or gerontoplast; a plastid.
    • In a paper on the same subject, A. Meyer proposes a somewhat different terminology. […] And since anaplasts, chromoplasts, and autoplasts are all nearly related in structure and origin, he includes them in the common term Trophoplasts.1883, Journal of Microscopy, page 239

Questions about trophoplasts

What is trophoplasts the plural of?
Trophoplasts is the plural of trophoplast.

Words near trophoplasts in the dictionary

  1. trophophytes
  2. trophoplasm
  3. trophoplasmic
  4. trophoplasms
  5. trophoplast
  6. trophoplasts
  7. trophosomal
  8. trophosome
  9. trophosomes
  10. trophospecies
  11. trophosperm

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