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leucoplast

[ loo-kuh-plast ]

noun

, Botany.
  1. a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.


leucoplast

/ ˈluːkəˌplæst /

noun

  1. any of the small colourless bodies occurring in the cytoplasm of plant cells and used for storing food material, esp starch


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Word History and Origins

Origin of leucoplast1

First recorded in 1885–90; leuco- + -plast

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