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- English Word Protoplasm Definition The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
- English Word Protoplasmatic Definition Protoplasmic.
- English Word Protoplasmic Definition Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
- English Word Protoplasmic Definition Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.
- English Word Protoplast Definition The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.
- English Word Protoplast Definition A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species.
- English Word Protoplasta Definition A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.
- English Word Protoplastic Definition First-formed.
- English Word Protopodite Definition The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.
- English Word Protopope Definition One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.
- English Word Protopterus Definition See Komtok.
- English Word Protosalt Definition A salt derived from a protoxide base.
- English Word Protosilicate Definition A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.
- English Word Protosomite Definition One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
- English Word Protosulphide Definition That one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.
- English Word Protosulphuret Definition A protosulphide.
- English Word Prototheria Definition Same as Monotremata.
- English Word Prototracheata Definition Same as Malacopoda.
- English Word Prototype Definition An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
- English Word Protovertebra Definition One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.