bioplasm

British  

/ ˈbaɪəʊˌplæzəm /

noun

1. rare living matter; protoplasm

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Other Word Forms

• bioplasmic adjective

Example Sentences

Within its bioplasm a clear space or vacuole may often be distinguished.

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

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

Protoplasm, a name given to presumed living matter forming the physical bases of all forms of animal and vegetable life; the term is now superseded by the term bioplasm.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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

To define a bioplast as a germinal point in germinal matter, or bioplasm, is to draw no satisfactory line of distinction between the two, except that the one is a mere aggregation of the other.

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