chromoplast Bot.
(ˈkrəʊməplæst)
[f. chromo- 2 + -plast.]
A chromatophore that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, esp. one that contains no chlorophyll. Also attrib. So chromoˈplastid.
| 1885 G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. 41 Those [granules] which have some color other than green—Chromoplastids, or chromoleucites. 1902 [see chloroplast]. 1902 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 52 The chromatophores or chromoplastids. 1910 R. C. Punnett Mendelism (ed. 2) 37 The tint of the flower being due to the presence of yellow-colouring matter in the small bodies known as chromoplasts. 1913 W. H. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity 40 Polemonium... It may be inferred that the yellow of flavum is a chromoplast colour. 1965 Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 43 Occasionally small starch grains may occur in photosynthetically inactive chromoplasts. |