granum

Thylakoids, containing chlorophyll and other accessory pigments, are in stacks called granum (grana, plural)

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These derive from the same Latin word granum grain: The reference is to the many fragments resulting from the detonation of a shell.

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These words are merely a commentary on those of the Master: Nisi granum frumenti cadens in terram mortuum fuerit, ipsum solum manet: "unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone" Jn 12:24.

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Number 322 Pupa granum is now Granopupa granum, whilst No.

Archive 2006-11-01 AYDIN 2006

Number 322 Pupa granum is now Granopupa granum, whilst No.

Rossmässler's Iconographie AYDIN 2006

Jacet granum opressum palea, justus caesus pravorum framea.

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The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.

Walden 2004

(Amomum granum Paradisi), fresh or old, is not only a toothstick, but a fetish of superior power when carried on journeys.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

If _coarse_ be not another form of _gross_, (Fr. _gros_, _grosse_,) then there is no connection between _corn_ and _granum_, or _horse_ and

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

[290] This statement ought to be taken with more than one _granum salis_, especially as Mrs. Somerville assures us that the Chinese had made advances in the science of astronomy 1,100 years before the

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