chlorophyll

See also: Chlorophyll

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chlorophyll

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Alternative forms

• chlorophyl (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chlorophylle, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) and φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔː.ɹə.fɪl/, /ˈklɒɹ.ə.fɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔɹ.ə.fɪl/

Noun

chlorophyll (usually uncountable, plural chlorophylls)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

Hypernyms

• chlorin
• pigment

Meronyms

• porphyrin ring
• phytol chain

Coordinate terms

• anthocyanin, carotenoid, xanthophyll

Derived terms

• achlorophyllous
• bacteriochlorophyll
• chlorophyll a
• chlorophyllase
• chlorophyll b
• chlorophyll c
• chlorophyll c1
• chlorophyll c2
• chlorophyll c3
• chlorophyll d
• chlorophyll f
• chlorophyllic
• chlorophyllide
• chlorophyllin
• chlorophylloid
• chlorophyllose
• chlorophyllous
• protochlorophyll

 

Translations

green pigment

Afrikaans: chlorofil, bladgroen Arabic: يَخْضُور (yaḵḍūr), كْلُورُوفِيل (ar) (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) Czech: chlorofyl (cs) m Danish: klorofyl (da), bladgrønt n Dutch: bladgroen (nl) n, chlorofyl (nl) n Estonian: klorofüll Faroese: blaðgrøni m Finnish: lehtivihreä (fi), klorofylli (fi) French: chlorophylle (fr) f Galician: clorofila (gl) 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 (ja) (kurorofiru), 葉緑素 (ja) (yōryokuso) Kazakh: хлорофилл (xlorofill) Khmer: ហរិតបត្ត (hak rit bat) Korean: 엽록소(葉綠素) (ko) (yeomnokso), 클로로필 (keulloropil) Kyrgyz: хлорофилл (ky) (hlorofill) Latvian: hlorofils m Lithuanian: žãlymas Macedonian: хлорофил m (hlorofil) Malay: klorofil, zat hijau Malayalam: ഹരിതകം (ml) (haritakaṁ), ക്ലോറോഫിൽ (klōṟōphil) Mari: Eastern Mari: хлорофилл (hlorofill) Mongolian: Cyrillic: хлорофилл (mn) (xlorofill), навчны ногоон эд (navčny nogoon ed) (China) Mongolian: ᡀᠣᠷᠣᠹᠢᠯᠯ (lhorofill), ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢᠨ ᠦ ᠨᠣᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ ᠡᠳ᠋ (nabčin-ü noɣoɣan ed) 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 Romanian: clorofilă (ro) f 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 Swahili: umbijani Swedish: klorofyll (sv), bladgrönt Tagalog: kloropila Turkish: klorofil (tr) Vietnamese: chất diệp lục (質葉綠), diệp lục tố (vi) (葉綠素)