chiroplast
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek [Term?] (“hand”) + [Term?] (“to shape”)
Noun
chiroplast (plural chiroplasts)
- (music, historical) A sliding wooden frame to guide the hands and fingers of pupils in playing the piano, etc.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chiroplast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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