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ectoplasm
[ ek-tuh-plaz-uhm ]
noun
- Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- Spiritualism. the supposed emanation from the body of a medium.
ectoplasm
/ ˈɛ°ì³Ùəʊˌ±è±ôæ³úÉ™³¾ /
noun
- cytology the outer layer of cytoplasm in some cells, esp protozoa, which differs from the inner cytoplasm in being a clear gel See also endoplasm
- spiritualism the substance supposedly emanating from the body of a medium during trances
Derived Forms
- ËŒ±ð³¦³Ù´Çˈ±è±ô²¹²õ³¾¾±³¦, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð³¦î€…t´Ç·±è±ô²¹²õm¾±³¦ ±ð³¦Â·³Ù´Ç·±è±ô²¹²õ·³¾²¹³Ù·¾±³¦ [ek-t, uh, -plaz-, mat, -ik], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ectoplasm1
Example Sentences
No matter that there is no liberal media beyond what has been fabricated from political ectoplasm.
Some of them, like me, were journalists who had dutifully showed up to watch Tiffany Haddish trade wisecracks with digital ectoplasm.
Arriving in Edinburgh — the fantastical Scottish capital that has long shimmered with ectoplasm — Jessie hides her seafaring coffin and ventures cautiously into town.
The character of France is like a filmic ectoplasm of us and who we are, and it is in that world of the film of us that is artificial and natural.
The novel’s ectoplasm hovers between the realms of historical horror and cultural comedy.
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