bioplasm
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- bioplasmic adjective
Example Sentences
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For he gains nothing by merely substituting "bioplasm" and "bioplasts" for "protoplasm" and "plastide particles."
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
We may examine, watch and study bioplasm under the microscope; we see it take up pabulum and convert that which is adapted to itself into its own substance, while all other substances are rejected.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
We have read our lower nature by turning each page, or, in other words, by passing through each stage of animal life from the minutest bioplasm up to the present stage of existence.
From Five Lectures on Reincarnation by Abhedananda, Swami
It has been already said that a vegetable may temporarily exist as a particle of bioplasm without any cell-wall, and such is the case with Protococcus, the cellular envelope of which occasionally disappears.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
To define a bioplast as a germinal point in germinal matter, or bioplasm, is to draw no satisfactory line of distinction between the two, except that the one is a mere aggregation of the other.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
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