Meaning Of The Word Leucoplast

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leucoplast in American English
any of the colorless granules found in the protoplasm of vegetable cells in which starch forms in the absence of light
noun: a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms

leucoplast in British English
noun: 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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