Crossword-Solution: CHLOROPHYLL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Chlorophyll | n. | Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CHLOROPHYLL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BROWN algae, pigment of | 1 answer |
| COLOURING matter of green parts of plants | 1 answer |
| DIATOMS, pigment of | 1 answer |
| Green coloring matter of plants. | 1 answer |
| Green pigment in leaves | 1 answer |
| It's all the rage in drugstores. | 1 answer |
| MARINE algae, pigment of | 1 answer |
| PHOTOSYNETHIC pigment | 1 answer |
| PLANT pigment responsible for light absorption | 1 answer |
| Photosynthetic pigment | 1 answer |
| Pigment making plants green | 1 answer |
| plant pigment | 5 answers |
| ANY OF A GROUP OF GREEN PIGMENTS FOUND IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS | 10 answers |
| pigment | 58 answers |
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Sentences with CHLOROPHYLL (5)
The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc.
They spelled from the physiology, chlorophyll, coccyx, arytenoid, and the names of the bones and nerves, and all the hard words inside you.
Esdaile." "Or at the delicate tint of that background of leaves? See the rich greens!" "Chlorophyll," murmured the Professor.
Amole, whose ponderous scientific name is _Chlorógalum pomeridianum_, is at its best for my purposes when all the chlorophyll from flower and stem has been driven back to the bulb, and it lies ripe and fully matured from late August until December.
Quotes with CHLOROPHYLL (3)
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any more than the planet is smooth; not even a single hydrogen atom is smooth, let alone a pine. Nor does it fit together; not even the chlorophyll and hemoglobin molecules are a perfect match, for, even after the atom of iron replaces the magnesium, long streamers of disparate atoms trail disjointedly from the rims of the molecule’s loops. Freedom cuts both ways. Mystery itself is as…
We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.
I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather conti…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1999).