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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless plastid that forms starch granules and occurs in cells of plant storage tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A starch-forming corpuscle or granule, found within the protoplasm of vegetable-cells.
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- noun biology A
specialized leucoplast responsible for the storage ofamylopectin through thepolymerization ofglucose .
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