deutoplasm

American

[doo-tuh-plaz-uhm, dyoo-] / ˈdu təˌplæz əm, ˈdyu- /

noun

Embryology.

the reserve nutritive material, as a yolk granule, in the ovarian cytoplasm.

deutoplasm British

/ ˈdjuːtərəʊˌplæzəm, ˈdjuːtəˌplæzəm /

noun

rare nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum

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Other Word Forms

deutoplasmic adjective

Etymology

Origin of deutoplasm

1880–85; < Greek deút ( eros ) second + -o- + -plasm

Example Sentences

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The contractions of the active protoplasm, which effect this continual cleavage of the cells, meet a greater resistance in the lower vegetal half from the passive deutoplasm than in the upper animal half.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Yolk: the nutritive matter of an egg as distinguished from the living, formative material; = deutoplasm.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

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