sarcode
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sarcode
1850–55; < French, alteration of Greek sarkṓdēs fleshy
Example Sentences
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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
There is no distinct mouth, and food is engulfed within any portion of the soft sarcode body.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
In this order the early condition of the plant is pulpy and gelatinous, and consists of a substance more allied to sarcode than cellulose.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
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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