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thylakoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

Syllables
thy-lakoid
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “sack, bag”) + -oid.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

thylakoids (plural)

Derived Forms

intrathylakoid thylakoidal transthylakoid

Questions

What does thylakoid mean?
a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis
Where does thylakoid come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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