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pigment
1. Dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder, to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce paint and similar products.
2. A natural substance in plant or animal tissue that gives it its color.
3. A substance, such as chlorophyll or melanin, that produces a characteristic color in plant or animal tissue.
4. Etymology: from Latin pigmentum, "coloring matter, pigment, paint"; from the root of pingere, "to color, to paint".
2. A natural substance in plant or animal tissue that gives it its color.
3. A substance, such as chlorophyll or melanin, that produces a characteristic color in plant or animal tissue.
4. Etymology: from Latin pigmentum, "coloring matter, pigment, paint"; from the root of pingere, "to color, to paint".
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(Greek > Latin: yellow orpiment [pigment of gold]; arsenic trisulfide, having a lemon-yellow color and a resinous luster; used as a pigment)
(Latin: "paint"; coloring matter involving both animals and plants)
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accessory pigment
A pigment found in plants, algae, and some bacteria, that absorbs light energy and channels it to the principal active pigment responsible for photosynthesis, usually a type of chlorophyll.
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respiratory pigment
1. Any of the oxygen-carrying substances in the blood and tissues, such as hemoglobin and myoglobin.
2. Any of various colored conjugated proteins; such as, hemoglobin, that occur in living organisms and function in oxygen transfer in cellular respiration.
2. Any of various colored conjugated proteins; such as, hemoglobin, that occur in living organisms and function in oxygen transfer in cellular respiration.
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accessory pigment
Any of a variety of light trapping pigments which extend the range of wavelengths for photosynthesis beyond those absorbed by chlorophylls (green coloring matter of leaves and plants which are essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis).
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