leucoplast

American

[loo-kuh-plast] / ˌlu kəˌplæst /

noun

Botany.

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

leucoplast British

/ ˈluːkəˌplæst /

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of leucoplast

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

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