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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Protoplasm \Pro"to*plasm\, noun [Proto- + Gr. ? form, fr. ? to mold.] (Biol.) 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.
Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
protoplasm
noun: the living substance of a cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) [syn: {living substance}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "protoplasm": animal cell, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule, chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, cytoplasm, ectoplasm, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, germ cell, plant cell, plasmodium, procaryotic cell, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium, trophoplasm
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