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een color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Written also chlorophyl.]

as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

ed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while oth…

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uni…

A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhib…

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts ofchlorophyll.

Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. R. Brown.

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

ter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll. Encyc. Brit.

heat; starch or farina; -- called also amylaceous fecula. (b) The green matter of plants; chlorophyll.

, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

-- Leaf frog (Zoöl.), any tree frog of the genus Phyllomedusa. -- Leaf green.(Bot.) See Chlorophyll. -- Leaf hopper (Zoöl.), any small jumping hemipterous insect of the genus Tettigonia, and allied genera. They live upon the leaves and twigs of plants. See Live hopper. -- Leaf insect (Zoöl.), any one of several gen…

A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.

which carbohydrates are formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light. It was formerly called assimilation, but this is now commonly used as in animal physiology. The details of the process are not yet clearly known. Baeyer's th…

A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll. [Written also phyllocyanine.]

A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.

ored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.