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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
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 1.6 [wn]:
protoplasm
n : the living substance of a cell [syn: {living substance}]
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