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41 words match “CHROMO”

CHROMO n.
A chromolithograph.
CHROMOBLAST n.
An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
CHROMOGEN n. 2 definitions
Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
CHROMOGENIC a.
Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
CHROMOGRAPH n.
An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.
CHROMOLEUCITE n.
A chromoplastid.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPH n.
A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHER n.
One who is engaged in chromolithography.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC a.
Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY n.
Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
CHROMOPHANE n.
A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.
CHROMOPHORE n.
Any chemical group or residue (as NO
CHROMOPHOTOGRAPH n.
A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors. --Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.
CHROMOPHOTOGRAPHY n.
The art of producing photographs in colors.
CHROMOPHOTOLITHOGRAPH n.
A photolithograph printed in colors.
CHROMOPLASTID n.
A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.
CHROMOSOME n.
One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
CHROMOSPHERE n.
descent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
CHROMOSPHERIC a.
Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
CHROMOTYPE n. 2 definitions
A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.
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