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Webster 1913 Edition

Leucoplastid

{

Leu′co-plast

(lū′kō̍-plăst)

,

Leuˊco-plas′tid

(-plăs′tĭd)

, }

Noun.

[

Leuco-

+ Gr.

πλάσσειν

to mold.]

(Bot.)

One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.