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Word: Thylakoid
Speech Type: Noun
1960s: from German Thylakoid, from Greek thulakoidēs ‘like a pouch’, from thulakos ‘pouch’
ˈθʌɪləkɔɪd
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
Short Definition:each of several flattened sacs inside chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which light reactions of photosynthesis take place
Examples:- thylakoid membranes
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