photopigment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any pigment that is unstable in the presence of light; used especially of the chromophore pigments in the rod cells and cone cells of the eye

Word forms

photopigment photopigments

Etymology

From photo- + pigment.

Related words

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