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protoplast

[ proh-tuh-plast ]

noun

  1. Biology.
    1. the contents of a cell within the cell membrane, considered as a fundamental entity.
    2. the primordial living unit or cell.
  2. a person or thing that is formed first; original; prototype.
  3. the hypothetical first individual or one of the supposed first pair of a species or the like.


protoplast

/ ˈəʊəˌæ /

noun

  1. a unit consisting of the living parts of a cell, including the protoplasm and cell membrane but not the vacuoles or (in plants) the cell wall
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌdzٴˈپ, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • t·t adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of protoplast1

1525–35; < Late Latin ōٴDZٳܲ the first man, noun use of Greek ōóٴDz formed first. See proto-, -plast
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of protoplast1

C16: from Late Latin ōٴDZٳܲ the first-formed, from Greek ōٴDZٴDz, from proto- + plassein to shape
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Stewart and his collaborators have developed a robot that performs an established technique called protoplast transformation faster and more accurately than is possible by hand.

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The curtain of the night was torn To show the protoplast Transfigured on the finer face Of that far prehistoric race— We, clumsy, call Lemurian!

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Fortunately the time was already past when protoplast patients were looked upon as something mildly freakish and to be pitied.

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Shall this germ and protoplast of being Rest mid-life and say his race is run?

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Ferragut, on passing from one tank to the other, mentally established the gradation of the fauna from the primitive protoplast to the perfect organism.

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