- 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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. Source: adambom
- 5. n:100 n. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) Source: ecdict
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