The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plastid \Plas"tid\, Plastide \Plas"tide\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, a creator.]
(Biol.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon. [Archaic]
--Haeckel.(Bot.) any of several types of minute granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells, having their own membrane, robosomes, and DNA. Among plant cells the most common are chloroplasts, which contain the chlorophyll and the photosynthetic machinery of the cell. They are divided by their colors into three classes, chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of chloroplast English)
Usage examples of "chloroplasts".
He was naked, his green skin exposed to the array of sunlamps mounted on the ceiling, his chloroplasts churning out a flood of sugar that he found more satisfying than any pre-dinner drink had ever been.
At least, they have chloroplasts in their skin, they photosynthesize, they love bright light.
Eventually, those algae became the chloroplasts that now handle the processes of photosynthesis in plants.
And they were descended from primordial bacteria just as chloroplasts were from algae.
If they removed chloroplasts from plant cells, again the consequence would be widespread death, catastrophe, for plant photosynthesis provided the raw material, the food, for all animal life.
He was just afraid it might be the part that could succumb to the spark of temptation—the lure of being on that other plane, where chloroplasts residing in your flesh didn't matter, because you didn't bring your flesh with you.
In his own body, their effect was enhanced by the chloroplasts dotted throughout his skin, which supplied the energy for them to work.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA, which replicates and propagates itself entirely independently of the main DNA in the chromosomes of the nucleus.
He was looking specifically for chlorophyll, chloroplasts, magnesium, and other signs of plant life.