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# chlorophyll

«chlorophyll» in Mova's school dictionary: **the green substance in plants that soaks up sunlight** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (chlorophyll — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Chlorophyll is the green substance in plants that soaks up sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#m1)

2) Plants use chlorophyll to make their own food from light, water and carbon dioxide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons chlorophyll explains why leaves are green and how photosynthesis works: chlorophyll captures light energy, and the plant makes sugar and gives off oxygen. In autumn chlorophyll breaks down, so yellow and red colours show in the leaves. Phrases: «green chlorophyll», «chlorophyll in the leaves», «chloroplasts contain chlorophyll».

### examples

- Leaves are green because they contain chlorophyll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x1)
- Chlorophyll helps plants catch sunlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x2)
- Without chlorophyll a plant cannot make its food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x3)
- In autumn the chlorophyll fades and leaves turn orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x4)
- Chlorophyll is found inside tiny parts called chloroplasts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x5)
- Seaweed also has chlorophyll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x6)
- A plant kept in the dark loses its green colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x7)
- We tested leaves for chlorophyll in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. Tricky spelling: chloro-phyll (ch sounds like k, double l at the end): KLOR-o-fill. Not every green thing has chlorophyll, and some plants with red leaves still have it, hidden by other colours. Animals do not have chlorophyll.

### In the corpora

- [The green stuff in leaves, chlorophyll, is what catches the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/3/)
- [The white patches of a variegated leaf have no chlorophyll and make no food, so such plants often grow more slowly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/15/)
- [A leaf's chlorophyll soaks up red and blue light and sends back green, so the leaf looks green.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/3/)
- [Chlorophyll is the green substance in leaves that catches the energy of light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/9/)
- [Leaves turn yellow and orange in autumn because the green chlorophyll breaks down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chlorophyll» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chlorophyll/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.