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thylakoid (iou)



thylakoid noun & adjective. M20.
[German Thylakoid from Greek thulakoides pouchlike, from thulakos pouch: see -OID.]
Botany. (Designating) any of the flattened sacs inside a chloroplast, bounded by pigmented membranes on which the light reactions of photosynthesis take place.