Protoplasm Definition

prōtə-plăzəm
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.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • living substance

Other Word Forms of Protoplasm

Noun

Singular:
protoplasm
Plural:
protoplasms

Origin of Protoplasm

  • From German Protoplasma, coined by Czech physiologist Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prōtos, “first") + πλάσμα (plasma, “something molded"). The word was in Late Latin, meaning "first created thing," and may have existed in Medieval Greek in a different sense.

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Protoplasm Sentence Examples

  • Embedded in the protoplasm are a number of starch grains.

  • In some species (Ascaris decipiens) the giant cell is replaced by an irregular mass of protoplasm containing a number of small nuclei.

  • The material and the energy go together, the decomposition of the one in the cell setting free the other, which is used at once in the vital processes of the cell, being in fact largely employed in constructing protoplasm or storing various products.

  • Such a plasmodium bears, on its periphery, groups of rounded projections of protoplasm termed end-organs.

  • The end wall is usually very thin, and the protoplasm on artificial contraction commonly sticks to it just as in a sieve-tube, though no perforation of the wall has been found.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

MSMASM

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Words Starting With P and Ending With M

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