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De - Pt| English Dictionary: protoplasm | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for protoplasm | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Protoplasm \Pro"to*plasm\, n. [Proto- + Gr. [?] form, fr. [?] to mold.] (Biol.) 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 [bd] physical basis of life;[b8] 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. | |
