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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Example Sentences

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sarcode

Food particles, after leaving the œsophagus, are thrust forward into the sarcode, or soft flesh, and any cavity thus formed acts as a stomach.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack

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

This condition tensified, the amœboid action quickened as here depicted, the agility of motion ceased, the nucleus body became strongly developed, and the whole sarcode was in a state of vivid and glittering action.

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

To this Dujardin gave the name of sarcode.

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

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