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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pigment found in fatty tissue, commonly of a yellow or red color. Such products occur widely distributed both in the animal and the vegetable world. The yellow color of the blood-serum, of the corpora lutea, and of the yoke of birds' eggs, and the reddish pigment of carrots and tomatoes belong to this order. Their composition is for the most part unknown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any naturally-occurring, fat-soluble
pigment such ascarotenes orchlorophyll
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PALMER AND ECKLES: The yellow lipochrome of the blood serum.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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In many cases the colour-production is dependent on certain definite conditions -- temperature, presence of oxygen, nature of the food-medium, &c. Ewart's important discovery that some of these lipochrome pigments occlude oxygen, while others do not, may have bearings on the facultative anaerobism of these organisms.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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