sarcode

American  

[sahr-kohd] / ˈsɑr koʊd /

noun

1. protoplasm, especially the semifluid content of a protozoan.

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Etymology

Origin of sarcode

1850–55; < French, alteration of Greek sarkṓdēs fleshy

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sarcode

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

It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

Cellulose and animal membrane being now regarded as more by-products, the way was clear for the recognition of the fact that vegetable protoplasm and animal sarcode are marvellously similar in appearance and general properties.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams

The fiber of sarcode, to which the constricted part has by tension been reduced, now snaps, and two organisms go free.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

At the same moment a motion is set up which pulls the divided pairs asunder, making the interval of sarcode to grow constantly greater between them.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various