Thesaurus: protoplasm

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1. n. 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.
2. n. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
3. 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.
4. The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable andanimal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes ofnutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physicalbasis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema,bioplasm sarcode, etc.
5. n:100 n. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)