chlorophyll b

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   a dark-green plant pigment having a brilliant green alcohol solution; generally characteristic of higher plants

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Questions about chlorophyll b

What does chlorophyll b mean?

chlorophyll b means "a dark-green plant pigment having a brilliant green alcohol solution; generally characteristic of higher plants".

Is chlorophyll b a common word?

chlorophyll b is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.