plastoglobule
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A globular mass of lipoprotein within a chloroplast.
Etymology
Etymology tree English plasto- Latin globus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin globuluslbor. French globulebor. English globule English plastoglobule From plasto- + globule.