Sarcode

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

  Sarcode \Sar"code\, n. [Gr. ? fleshy; sa`rx, flesh + e'i^dos
     form. Cf. {Sarcoid}.] (Biol.)
     A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material
     forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
     [1913 Webster] Sarcoderm