protoplasmic

[proh-tuh-plaz-mik]

adjective

1. Biology.,  relating to or being the protoplasm of a cell, or its nucleus and cytoplasm.

2. consisting of or suggesting primordial, unstructured living matter not resembling any actual creature.

Example Sentences

Take Thomas Huxley, an early disciple of Darwin who became convinced in the 1860s that the seabed was blanketed by a living protoplasmic slime that he dubbed Bathybius haeckelii.

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There are Great Old Ones, the Outer Gods, the Elder Things and assorted monsters like the Shoggoth, a slave race of many-eyed, protoplasmic amoeba doodads.

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Ginsberg, in his singular phrasing, praised McClure’s work as “a blob of protoplasmic energy.”

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In Galerie Maria Wettergren, a Danish-born, London-based designer Mathias Bengtsson created a protoplasmic maple tabletop set on skeletal legs that grew organically from a natural algorithm that he scripted into software.

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Props dropped like bombs from the ceiling onto a square table include high-bouncing rubber balls that have a vague protoplasmic effect, plus tiles with words, and even a large kitchen knife.

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