'Protoplasm' definitions:
Definition of 'protoplasm'
(from WordNet)
noun
The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) [syn: protoplasm, living substance]
Definition of 'Protoplasm'
From: GCIDE
- Protoplasm \Pro"to*plasm\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'protoplasm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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