English
Etymology
Borrowed from French chlorophylle , from Ancient Greek χλωρός ( khlōrós , “ pale green ” ) and φύλλον ( phúllon , “ leaf ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
chlorophyll (usually uncountable , plural chlorophylls )
( biochemistry ) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria .
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Translations
green pigment
Arabic: كْلُورُوفِيل ( klūrūfīl )
Armenian: քլորոֆիլ (hy) ( kʻlorofil )
Azerbaijani: xlorofil
Bashkir: хлорофилл ( xlorofill )
Basque: klorofila
Bulgarian: хлорофи́л m ( hlorofíl )
Catalan: clorofil·la (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 葉綠素 / 叶绿素 (zh) ( yèlǜsù ) , 叶绿素 (zh) ( yèlǜsù )
Czech: chlorofyl (cs) m
Danish: klorofyl (da) , bladgrønt n
Dutch: bladgroen (nl) n
Estonian: klorofüll
Faroese: blaðgrøni m
Finnish: lehtivihreä (fi) , klorofylli (fi)
French: chlorophylle (fr) f
Galician: clorofila f
German: Chlorophyll (de) n , Blattgrün (de)
Alemannic German: Blattgrien
Greek: χλωροφύλλη (el) f ( chlorofýlli )
Gujarati: હરિતદ્રવ્ય ( haritadravya )
Hindi: पर्णहरित ( parṇahrit )
Icelandic: blaðgræna , laufgræna , klórófýl
Italian: clorofilla (it) f
Japanese: クロロフィル ( kurorofiru ) , 葉緑素 ( yōryokuso )
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Kazakh: хлорофилл ( xlorofill )
Khmer: ហរិតបត្ត ( hak rit bat )
Korean: 엽록소 (ko) ( yeomnokso ) (葉綠素 (ko) ), 클로로필 ( keulloropil )
Kyrgyz: хлорофилл (ky) ( hlorofill )
Latvian: hlorofils m
Lithuanian: žãlymas
Macedonian: хлорофил m ( hlorofil )
Malay: klorofil , zat hijau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bladgrønt , klorofyll n
Nynorsk: bladgrønt , klorofyll n
Persian: سبزینه (fa) ( sebzine ) , کلروفیل (fa) ( klorofil )
Polish: chlorofil (pl) m
Portuguese: clorofila (pt) f
Quechua: raphi q'umir
Russian: хлорофи́лл (ru) m ( xlorofíll )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хлорофил m , клорофил m ( Croatia )
Roman: hlorofil m , klorofil (sh) m ( Croatia )
Slovene: klorofil (sl) m
Spanish: clorofila (es) f
Swedish: klorofyll (sv) , bladgrönt
Tagalog: kloropila
Turkish: klorofil (tr)
Vietnamese: chất diệp lục , diệp lục tố