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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Subsisting upon proteids which are obtained ready made, in the way that is characteristic of animals.

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  • Monera like the Chromacea, structureless green particles of plasm; afterwards real nucleated cells (first plasmodomous Protophyta, like the Palmella; then plasmophagous Protozoa, like the Amoeba).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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