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.
1 Chlorophyll is the green dominant pigment in leaves during the spring/summer. 2  The green pigment hides the other colors in the leaf. 3  Leaves get less light each day in the fall and stop making food to prepare for the winter. The green pigment hides the other colors in the leaf. 2  Leaves get less light each day in the fall and stop making food to prepare for the winter. 3  The chlorophyll (green color) fades and other colors (mainly red/yellow/orange/tan) in the leaves begin to show.