thylakoid
Meaning of thylakoid
noun
- each of a number of flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place, and arranged in stacks or grana.
thylakoid membranes
1960s: from German Thylakoid, from Greek thulakoidēs ‘like a pouch’, from thulakos ‘pouch’.
Information about thylakoid
- It is a name.
- The plural form of thylakoid is: thylakoids.
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Hyphenation of thylakoid
thy-lakoid
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- thylakoid is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with thylakoid
brachypinakoid, clinopinakoid, macropinakoid, orthopinakoid, pinakoid, geckoid, Fabrikoid, fabrikoid, maskoid, obeliskoid
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