endochrome

English

Etymology

From endo- ‎ -chrome.

Noun

endochrome (countable and uncountable, plural endochromes)

1. (botany) Any colouring matter within the cells of plants.

   Endochrome is not always green, but may for example be red or yellow.

2. (zoology) The coloured endoplasm of a cell.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “endochrome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)