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protoplasmic
Variant of protoplasm
noun
a semifluid, viscous, translucent colloid, the essential living matter of all animal and plant cells: it consists largely of water, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and inorganic salts and is differentiated into nucleoplasm and cytoplasm
Related Forms:
- protoplasmic adjective
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