Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Protoplasm.
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Examples
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My hate for you scumsucking, protoplasma, packages has no need for fuel.
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If they are not kept constant, then, strictly speaking, we can only talk of a replication of the genomes which are embedded in a more or less well-nourished, more or less mistreated, specific protoplasma, and which, in extreme cases, may even replicate without cell division.
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And the germ-cell may devour any amount of egg-protoplasma without losing its original paternal energy.
Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English Henry Stanton
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Like all the other functional-activities of the organic cells, these soul-functions depend ultimately on material phenomena of motion, and more particularly on the motions of the plasson-molecules or plastidules, the ultimate atoms of the protoplasma, and perhaps of the nucleus also; therefore we should be able actually to grasp and explain them, as well as every other cognisable natural process, if we were in a position to refer them to the mechanics of atoms.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Creation, "and explains the origin of the first and most simple organic individuals either through what he calls _autogony_ in an inorganic fluid, or through _plasmogony_ in an organic fluid -- a plasma or protoplasma.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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The psychic functions of sensation and voluntary motion, which are here distributed to such very various organs and tissues, are in the infusoria fulfilled by the neutral plasson material of the cell, by the protoplasma, and possibly also by the nucleus (compare my treatise "The Morphology of the Infusoria."
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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