leucoplast

[ loo-kuh-plast ]

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

Origin of leucoplast

1
First recorded in 1885–90; leuco- + -plast

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British Dictionary definitions for leucoplast

leucoplast

leucoplastid

/ (ˈluːkəˌplæst) /


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

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