protoplasmic
Americanadjective
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Biology. relating to or being the protoplasm of a cell, or its nucleus and cytoplasm.
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consisting of or suggesting primordial, unstructured living matter not resembling any actual creature.
Example Sentences
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Ginsberg, in his singular phrasing, praised McClure’s work as “a blob of protoplasmic energy.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2020
It broke all the rules of things natural, and introduced endless possibilities, unknown worlds that shifted shapes and light, creating myriad phantasms of protoplasmic gobbleygook.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
But biology moved on from protoplasmic theory, and slime itself began to seem absurd.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
Sears, as I dimly remember it, wanted to paint a sweeping rhetorical picture of human evolution from protoplasmic pond scum, to brave fish slithering onto dry land, to a hominid species reaching for the stars.
From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2015
That replenishment we cannot understand: we may figure it to ourselves as a protoplasmic process;—as some relation between protoplasm, ether, and whatever is beyond ether, on which it is at present useless to speculate.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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