Protoplasm

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 " physical basis of life;" the original cell


     substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  protoplasm
       n : the living substance of a cell (including cytoplasm and
           nucleus) [syn: {living substance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "protoplasm":
     animal cell, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule,
     chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, cytoplasm, ectoplasm,
     endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, germ cell, plant cell,
     plasmodium, procaryotic cell, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium,
     trophoplasm