leucoplast

[ loo-kuh-plast ]

noun

, Botany.

1. a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.

leucoplast

/ ˈluːkəˌplæst /

noun

1. any of the small colourless bodies occurring in the cytoplasm of plant cells and used for storing food material, esp starch

Word History and Origins

Origin of leucoplast¹

First recorded in 1885–90; leuco- + -plast