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plastid


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plastid  \Plas"tid\,  Plastide  \Plas"tide\,  n.  [Gr.  ?,  ?,  a 
  creator.] 
  1.  (Biol.)  A  formative  particle  of  albuminous  matter;  a 
  monad;  a  cytode.  See  the  Note  under  {Morphon}.  --Haeckel. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  One  of  the  many  minute  granules  found  in  the 
  protoplasm  of  vegetable  cells.  They  are  divided  by  their 
  colors  into  three  classes,  chloroplastids,  chromoplastids, 
  and  leucoplastids. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plastid 
  n  :  any  of  various  small  particles  in  the  cytoplasm  of  the  cells 
  of  plants  and  some  animals  containing  pigments  or  starch 
  or  oil  or  protein 




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