Medical term:
pyrenoid
py·re·noid
(pī'rĕ-noyd),One of the minute luminous bodies sometimes visualized in the chromatophores of some protozoa, such as Euglena viridis.
[G. pyrēn, pit of a fruit, + eidos, resemblance]
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pyrenoid
a region of starch formation found in the CHLOROPLASTS of various algae, for example, Spirogyra, Chlamydomonas.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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