sarcode
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sarcode
1850–55; < French, alteration of Greek sarkṓdēs fleshy
Example Sentences
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From protozoa or protista to plants and animals the graduation is closer than from magnetised iron to vitalised sarcode.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
A somewhat different view has been advanced by other physiologists—namely that the protoplasm, when irritated, contracts like the soft sarcode of the muscles of animals.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
Sometimes used synonymously for the "sarcode" of the Protozoa.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Animal simple or compound; body composed of "sarcode," not definitely segmented; no nervous system; and no digestive apparatus, beyond occasionally a mouth and gullet.
From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
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