Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the hypothetical crystalloid bodies or plates supposed by Nägeli to be the units out of which organized bodies, more particularly plants, are built up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, biology A supposed
submicroscopic particle that formed part of a biological organism
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Examples
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But his internal "principle of progress" is at the bottom just as teleological as the vital force of the Vitalists, and the micella structure of the idioplasm is just as hypothetical as the "dominant" structure of the germ-plasm.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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