Claude, an autotropic boy in my class whose skin is green due to chlorophyll, dreams of foresting the moon.
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Chlorophyll
//ˈklɔɹ.ə.fɪl//
Synonyms for "chlorophyll" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (4)
Noun(1 words)
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6 entriesmeronym
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 51 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- bladgroen noun (green pigment)
- chlorofil noun (green pigment)
Arabic
2 entries- كْلُورُوفِيل noun (green pigment)
- يَخْضُور noun (green pigment)
Armenian
1 entries- քլորոֆիլ noun (green pigment)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xlorofil noun (green pigment)
Bashkir
1 entries- хлорофилл noun (green pigment)
Basque
1 entries- klorofila noun (green pigment)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хлорофи́л noun (green pigment)
Catalan
1 entries- clorofil·la noun (green pigment)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 葉綠素 /叶绿素 noun (green pigment)
Czech
1 entries- chlorofyl noun (green pigment)
Danish
2 entries- bladgrønt noun (green pigment)
- klorofyl noun (green pigment)
Dutch
2 entries- bladgroen noun (green pigment)
- chlorofyl noun (green pigment)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- хлорофилл noun (green pigment)
Estonian
1 entries- klorofüll noun (green pigment)
Faroese
1 entries- blaðgrøni noun (green pigment)
Finnish
2 entries- klorofylli noun (green pigment)
- lehtivihreä noun (green pigment)
French
1 entries- chlorophylle noun (green pigment)
Galician
1 entries- clorofila noun (green pigment)
German
3 entries- Blattgrien noun (green pigment)
- Blattgrün noun (green pigment)
- Chlorophyll noun (green pigment)
Greek
1 entries- χλωροφύλλη noun (green pigment)
Gujarati
1 entries- હરિતદ્રવ્ય noun (green pigment)
Hindi
1 entries- पर्णहरित noun (green pigment)
Icelandic
3 entries- blaðgræna noun (green pigment)
- klórófýl noun (green pigment)
- laufgræna noun (green pigment)
Italian
1 entries- clorofilla noun (green pigment)
Japanese
2 entries- クロロフィル noun (green pigment)
- 葉緑素 noun (green pigment)
Kazakh
1 entries- хлорофилл noun (green pigment)
Khmer
1 entries- ហរិតបត្ត noun (green pigment)
Korean
2 entries- 엽록소 noun (green pigment)
- 클로로필 noun (green pigment)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- хлорофилл noun (green pigment)
Latvian
1 entries- hlorofils noun (green pigment)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žãlymas noun (green pigment)
Macedonian
1 entries- хлорофил noun (green pigment)
Malay
2 entries- klorofil noun (green pigment)
- zat hijau noun (green pigment)
Malayalam
2 entries- ക്ലോറോഫിൽ noun (green pigment)
- ഹരിതകം noun (green pigment)
Mongolian
4 entries- навчны ногоон эд noun (green pigment)
- хлорофилл noun (green pigment)
- ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢᠨ ᠦ ᠨᠣᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ ᠡᠳ᠋ noun (green pigment)
- ᡀᠣᠷᠣᠹᠢᠯᠯ noun (green pigment)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- bladgrønt noun (green pigment)
- klorofyll noun (green pigment)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- bladgrønt noun (green pigment)
- klorofyll noun (green pigment)
Persian
2 entries- سبزینه noun (green pigment)
- کلروفیل noun (green pigment)
Polish
1 entries- chlorofil noun (green pigment)
Portuguese
1 entries- clorofila noun (green pigment)
Quechua
1 entries- raphi q'umir noun (green pigment)
Romanian
1 entries- clorofilă noun (green pigment)
Russian
1 entries- хлорофи́лл noun (green pigment)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hlorofil noun (green pigment)
- klorofil noun (green pigment)
- клорофил noun (green pigment)
- хлорофил noun (green pigment)
Slovene
1 entries- klorofil noun (green pigment)
Spanish
1 entries- clorofila noun (green pigment)
Swahili
1 entries- umbijani noun (green pigment)
Swedish
2 entries- bladgrönt noun (green pigment)
- klorofyll noun (green pigment)
Tagalog
1 entries- kloropila noun (green pigment)
Turkish
1 entries- klorofil noun (green pigment)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chất diệp lục noun (green pigment)
- diệp lục tố noun (green pigment)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Did you know that green vegetables contain magnesium as the center of each chlorophyll molecule, and that magnesium is one of the most important nutrients in the diet?
Source: tatoeba (10913363)
The green pigment, chlorophyll, visible in leaves and in the bark of aspen, absorbs the energy from sunlight. This triggers the chemical reaction that produces sugars and starches used by the plant to grow.
Source: tatoeba (11026592)
Aspen also produce chlorophyll in their bark, allowing the tree to begin photosynthesizing before leaves have emerged.
Source: tatoeba (11028166)
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