chloroplast

See also: Chloroplast

English

Etymology

From chloro- +‎ -plast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːɹəʊˌplæst/

• Audio (Northern California):

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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, characterized by a high concentration of chlorophyll and two membranes.

Hypernyms

• plastid

Meronyms

• granum

Coordinate terms

• leucoplast, chromoplast

Derived terms

• chloroplastal
• chloroplast DNA
• chloroplastic
• extrachloroplast
• kleptochloroplast
• macrochloroplast
• nonchloroplast
• subchloroplast

 

Translations

photosynthetic organelle

• Azerbaijani: xloroplast
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 葉綠體／叶绿体 (ia̍p-le̍k-thé)

  Mandarin: 葉綠體／叶绿体 (zh) (yèlǜtǐ)

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

See also

• mitochondrion
• hydrogenosome

Polish

chloroplasty

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English chloroplast, French chloroplaste, German Chloroplast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xlɔˈrɔp.last/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔplast
• Syllabification: chlo‧rop‧last

Noun

chloroplast m inan (related adjective chloroplastowy)

1. (cytology) chloroplast (organelle found in the cells of green plants and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place, characterized by a high concentration of chlorophyll and two membranes)

Declension

Declension of chloroplast

	singular	plural
nominative	chloroplast	chloroplasty
genitive	chloroplastu	chloroplastów
dative	chloroplastowi	chloroplastom
accusative	chloroplast	chloroplasty
instrumental	chloroplastem	chloroplastami
locative	chloroplaście	chloroplastach
vocative	chloroplaście	chloroplasty

Related terms

nouns

• chloroplastyna

 

Further reading

• chloroplast in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chloroplast in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• chloroplast in PWN's encyclopedia