Thesaurus: plasmodium
A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
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- n. A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
- n. A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
- n. multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
- n. parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
- 1. (Biol.) A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion. 2. (Zoöl.) A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
- A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union ofamoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
- n:100 n. multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds n. parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans