GCIDE (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: Pedestal (n.) Hence: A short free-standing column or column-like object designed to support a work of art or other object; a column serving the same function as the base of a statue. It may be made of wood, marble, or other suitable material. Pedestal (n.)
Plants apear green because of chlorophyll--the pigment inside the chloroplasts. It absorbs red and blue light from the sun and uses this light to carry out photosynthesis with â¦ in the plant.
Both chloroplasts and the leaves themselves are different shades of green due to a lovely pigment they contain. A pigment is a compound that absorbs a particular wavelength of visible light. Chlorophyll is a green pigment contained in thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts that is used in photosynthesis by plants. In bacteria that also perform photosynthesis, chlorophylls are in the plasma membrane.