Carrying or bearing chlorophyll within living tissues.
From Greek chloros (green) + phyllon (leaf) + Latin -gerous (carrying, bearing). This is a variant formation of chlorophyll terms using the suffix meaning 'to carry' rather than 'to produce.'
There are at least five different ways to describe chlorophyll-containing organisms in scientific Latin, and this word is the 'carrying' version—it's like scientists couldn't resist making chlorophyll terminology as specific as possible!
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