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bioplasm

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/ ˈbaɪəʊˌplæzəm /

noun

  1. rare living matter; protoplasm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A bioplast, they tell us, is a germinal point in germinal matter or bioplasm.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

It has been already said that a vegetable may temporarily exist as a particle of bioplasm without any cell-wall, and such is the case with Protococcus, the cellular envelope of which occasionally disappears.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

Both processes take place only in bioplasm or vitalized matter, supplied with oxygen, water and heat.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir

The two opening sections of this book treat of kami that were in the minds even of the makers of the myths little more than mud and water13—the mere bioplasm of deity.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

Nor can any difference be discerned between the bioplasm matter of the lowest, simplest, epithelial scale of man's organism and that from which the nerve cells of his brain are to be evolved.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

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