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protoplasm |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Protoplasm \Pro"to*plasm\, n. [Proto- + Gr ? form fr ? to mold.] (Biol.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called `` physical basis of life;'' the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: protoplasm n : the living substance of a cell [syn: {living substance}]
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