Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A particle of bioplasm; a living germinal cell, such as a white blood-corpuscle or a lymph-corpuscle; an amœboid; a plastidule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.
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- noun biology a mass or cell of
bioplasm that is a unit ofliving matter ; an independently existing mass of living matter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Coca-Cola Co., meanwhile, is investing in a bioplast ic to line disposable cups, and PepsiCo Inc. 's Frito-Lay has adopted biodegradable plastic for the bags of some of its snacks.
Just One Word: Bioplastics Mara Lemos Stein 2010
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If conception is the point where a bioplast/fetus is a human life with all the rights of a fully born person, then a woman who miscarries must pay for a mortuary to handle disposal of the remains.
Brownback Hammers Romney For Not Calling Abortion "Murder" 2009
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Data lay stiff and inoperative, and the front of his uniform smoked where her phaser had burned through the fabric and scorched the bioplast sheeting of his chest.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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With the back of her hand, Deanna whacked Data in the ribs and swallowed a grunt of pain at the impact of her hand against his bioplast sheeting.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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Data lay stiff and inoperative, and the front of his uniform smoked where her phaser had burned through the fabric and scorched the bioplast sheeting of his chest.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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With the back of her hand, Deanna whacked Data in the ribs and swallowed a grunt of pain at the impact of her hand against his bioplast sheeting.
The Battle of Betazed Charlotte Douglas 2002
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The very admission that the bioplast spins, makes it an organism, and not mere structureless matter.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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If any germinal point in germinal matter, therefore, be a bioplast, then every germinal point, to the extent of making up its entire mass, must be a bioplast; and the distinction between the two becomes merely verbal, and without generic signification.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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A bioplast, they tell us, is a germinal point in germinal matter or bioplasm.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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But this "pellicle" of Professor Bastian is not mere structureless matter, any more than the "bioplast" of Professor Beale.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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