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View synonyms for plasm-

plasm-

1
  1. variant of plasmo- before a vowel:

    plasmapheresis.



-plasm

2
  1. a combining form with the meanings “living substance,” “tissue,” “substance of a cell,” used in the formation of compound words:

    endoplasm; neoplasm; cytoplasm.

plasm

1

/ ˈplæzəm /

noun

  1. protoplasm of a specified type

    germ plasm

  2. a variant of plasma
“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


-plasm

2

combining form

  1. (in biology) indicating the material forming cells

    cytoplasm

    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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Derived Forms

  • -plasmic, combining_form:in_adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of plasm-1

Combining form representing Greek plásma. See plasma
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Word History and Origins

Origin of plasm-1

from Greek plasma something moulded; see plasma
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Example Sentences

Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment?

It would seem that a stemonitis, for example, must owe the rise of the spore-plasm to the play of different machinery.

But this difference is easily explained by their difference in consistency, the crystal being solid and the plasm semi-fluid.

The "miracle of life" is in essence nothing but the metabolism of the living matter, or of the plasm.

In my opinion, this paradoxical theory of death has no more basis than the germ-plasm theory he has ingeniously connected with it.

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