protoplasm
protoplasm is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aftercrop
- aftergrowth
- aftermath
- albumen
- anabolism
- anatomy
- and
- animated
- antherozoid
- arrish
- bacteriology
- biology
- bioplasm
- biotaxy
- botany
- chemistry
- chromosome
- conceive
- cow
- crop
- cytoplasm
- eddish
- fecund
- fecundate
- fecundify
- fecundity
- fertile
- fertility
- fertilization
- fertilize
- flowing
- fructification
- fructify
- frugiferous
- fruitful
- gamete
- generate
- generative
- germinal
- history
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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