protoplasm
noun
(no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
protoplasmal
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a word derived from
protoplasm.
Example Sentences
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Or, as Gilbert and Sullivan would put it in 1885: “I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule; consequently my family pride is something inconceivable.”
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
From the protoplasmal cell descends the genius; from the loins of the sodden toiler chained to the soil springs the mother of genius or genius itself.
From The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips
