Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little body or corpuscle; one of the minute granules embedded in the hyaline plasm of the protoplasm of vegetable cells, and constituting an essential portion of its substance.
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Examples
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On Partida Island, there are least and black storm petrels Oceanodroma microsoma and O. melania and the locally endemic yellow-footed gull Larus livens.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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