Noun
A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.
One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCott, 1940. p. 32. The cephalopod chromatophore has all its pigment grains in a small elastic sac, which can be stretched or allowed to relax under the control of the brain to vary its opacity. Source: Internet
Forbes, 2009. pp. 52, 236. Four frames of the same peacock flounder taken a few minutes apart, showing its ability to match its coloration to the environment Each chromatophore contains pigment of only one colour. Source: Internet
Nowack and her colleagues citation performed gene sequencing on the chromatophore (1.02 Mb) and found that only 867 proteins were encoded by these photosynthetic cells. Source: Internet