Usually means: Pigment-containing cells in organisms.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. chromatophore: Merriam-Webster
  2. chromatophore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chromatophore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chromatophore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chromatophore: Wordnik
  6. chromatophore: Wiktionary
  7. chromatophore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. chromatophore: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. chromatophore: Dictionary.com
  10. Chromatophore (bacteria), Chromatophore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Chromatophore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. chromatophore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Chromatophore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. chromatophore: FreeDictionary.org
  15. chromatophore: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chromatophore: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. chromatophore: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. chromatophore: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (chromatophore)

▸ noun:  A pigment-bearing cell or structure found in certain fish, reptiles, cephalopods, and other animals

Similar:
melanophore, photophore, cyanophore, chromophyll, chromoblast, chromatophoroma, chromerid, chromophyte, melanopore, iodophile, more...

Adjectives:
single, large, parietal, stellate, shaped, green, red, bacterial, like, brown, axial

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Similar:
melanophore, photophore, cyanophore, chromophyll, chromoblast, chromatophoroma, chromerid, chromophyte, melanopore, iodophile, more...

Adjectives:
single, large, parietal, stellate, shaped, green, red, bacterial, like, brown, axial



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