chloroplast

See also: Chloroplast

English

Etymology

chloro- +‎ -plast

Pronunciation

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Noun

chloroplast (plural chloroplasts)

1. (cytology) An organelle found in the cells of green plants, and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place.

See also

• mitochondrion
• hydrogenosome

Translations

photosynthetic organelle

• Azerbaijani: xloroplast
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葉綠體／叶绿体 (zh) (yèlǜtǐ), 叶绿体 (zh) (yèlǜtǐ)

  Min Nan: 葉綠體／叶绿体 (ia̍p-le̍k-thé)

• Danish: grønkorn n, kloroplast c
• Dutch: bladgroenkorrel (nl)
• Finnish: viherhiukkanen (fi)
• French: chloroplaste (fr) m
• German: Chloroplast (de) m
• Hungarian: kloroplasztisz
• Icelandic: grænukorn n
• Italian: cloroplasto (it) m
• Japanese: 葉緑体 (ja) (ようりょくたい, yōryokutai)
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• Kannada: ಎಲೆಮನೆ (kn) (elemane)
• Maori: pūmāota, pūkāriki
• Persian: سبزدیسه (fa) (sabzdise)
• Portuguese: cloroplasto (pt) m
• Russian: хлоропла́ст (ru) m (xloroplást)
• Sinhalese: හරිතලව (si) (haritalawa)
• Spanish: cloroplasto (es) m
• Swahili: chembeumbijani
• Tagalog: luntikatwan
• Tamil: பச்சையமணி (paccaiyamaṇi), பசுங்கணிகம் (pacuṅkaṇikam)
• Turkish: kloroplast (tr)
• Vietnamese: lạp lục