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chlorophyll
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  • Her nails were long and green and curved in the latest mandarin fashion; they curled around my manuscript like the claws of some chlorophyll beast.†  (source)
  • She was pretty in a dryad-y way, with her purple gossamer dress and her elfish face, but her eyes were green-tinted with chlorophyll from crying.†  (source)
  • The tree leaves against the window glimmered green with veins of chlorophyll blood.†  (source)
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  • Its green and white stripes indicate the constant multiple, condition of parallel active and dormant chlorophyll regions.†  (source)
    chlorophyll = the green substance in plants that absorbs light energy and converts it to chemical energy through photosynthesis
  • Thanks to chlorophyll, plants are able to transform sunlight, water, and minerals into carbohydrates.†  (source)
  • ...Yet chlorophyll-based life-forms had so little range of emotion.†  (source)
  • Growth and decay and the smell of chlorophyll and jungle sounds and jungle depth.†  (source)
  • The smell of azaleas and the sleepy smell of sun working with chlorophyll filled the air.†  (source)
  • The spectacle of depravity is of interest even to them, it seems, purified by chlorophyll though they are.†  (source)
  • Her eyes, instead of being red from crying, were tinged green, the color of chlorophyll.†  (source)
  • The leaves' appetite for the sun, as testified by their abundance, their breadth and their super-chlorophyll greenness, made me suspect that the trees had primarily an energy-gathering function.†  (source)
  • In the morning, at the end of the long march, his boots would have lost their shiny black stiffness, turning red and clay-colored like all the other boots, and he would have a start on a beard, his clothes would begin to smell of the country, the mud and algae and manure and chlorophyll and decay and mildew.†  (source)
  • They were the size of toddlers, with rolls of baby fat, but their skin had a strange greenish hue, as if chlorophyll ran through their veins.†  (source)
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