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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French chlorophylle, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) and φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
chlorophyll (usually uncountable, plural chlorophylls)
- (biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.
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green pigment
- Afrikaans: chlorofil, bladgroen
- Arabic: يَخْضُور (yaḵḍūr), كْلُورُوفِيل (ar) (klūrūfīl)
- Armenian: քլորոֆիլ (hy) (kʻlorofil)
- Azerbaijani: xlorofil
- Bashkir: хлорофилл (xlorofill)
- Basque: klorofila
- Bulgarian: хлорофи́л m (hlorofíl)
- Catalan: clorofil·la (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 葉綠素 / 叶绿素 (zh) (yèlǜsù)
- Czech: chlorofyl (cs) m
- Danish: klorofyl (da), bladgrønt n
- Dutch: bladgroen (nl) n, chlorofyl (nl) n
- Estonian: klorofüll
- Faroese: blaðgrøni m
- Finnish: lehtivihreä (fi), klorofylli (fi)
- French: chlorophylle (fr) f
- Galician: clorofila (gl) f
- German: Chlorophyll (de) n, Blattgrün (de)
- Alemannic German: Blattgrien
- Greek: χλωροφύλλη (el) f (chlorofýlli)
- Gujarati: હરિતદ્રવ્ય (haritadravya)
- Hindi: पर्णहरित (parṇahrit)
- Icelandic: blaðgræna, laufgræna, klórófýl
- Italian: clorofilla (it) f
- Japanese: クロロフィル (ja) (kurorofiru), 葉緑素 (ja) (yōryokuso)
- Kazakh: хлорофилл (xlorofill)
- Khmer: ហរិតបត្ត (hak rit bat)
- Korean: 엽록소(葉綠素) (ko) (yeomnokso), 클로로필 (keulloropil)
- Kyrgyz: хлорофилл (ky) (hlorofill)
- Latvian: hlorofils m
- Lithuanian: žãlymas
- Macedonian: хлорофил m (hlorofil)
- Malay: klorofil, zat hijau
- Malayalam: ഹരിതകം (ml) (haritakaṁ), ക്ലോറോഫിൽ (klōṟōphil)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: хлорофилл (hlorofill)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хлорофилл (mn) (xlorofill), навчны ногоон эд (navčny nogoon ed) (China)
- Mongolian: ᡀᠣᠷᠣᠹᠢᠯᠯ (lhorofill), ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢᠨ ᠦ
ᠨᠣᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ
ᠡᠳ᠋ (nabčin-ü noɣoɣan ed)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bladgrønt, klorofyll n
- Nynorsk: bladgrønt, klorofyll n
- Persian: سبزینه (fa) (sebzine), کلروفیل (fa) (klorofil)
- Polish: chlorofil (pl) m
- Portuguese: clorofila (pt) f
- Quechua: raphi q'umir
- Romanian: clorofilă (ro) f
- Russian: хлорофи́лл (ru) m (xlorofíll)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хлорофил m, клорофил m (Croatia)
- Roman: hlorofil m, klorofil (sh) m (Croatia)
- Slovene: klorofil (sl) m
- Spanish: clorofila (es) f
- Swahili: umbijani
- Swedish: klorofyll (sv), bladgrönt
- Tagalog: kloropila
- Turkish: klorofil (tr)
- Vietnamese: chất diệp lục (質葉綠), diệp lục tố (vi) (葉綠素)
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