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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology A specialized leucoplast responsible for the storage of amylopectin through the polymerization of glucose.

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