Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Protoplasmic; pertaining to or having the character of a protoplast.
- Specifically, belonging to the Protoplasta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective First-formed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to
protoplast - adjective obsolete
prototypical
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Examples
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The prefabricated refinery processed the crumbly stuff, turning it into thick dark bricks of protoplastic, the fodder of their building and pharmaceuticals industry.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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His brain had been removed from his old head casing, all nerve connections at the top of the spine cut away with a laser, and submerged in a synthesized protoplastic colloid.
The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981
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Not only did my own blood course through the protoplastic but I could feel it doing so.
Man Made Albert Teichner
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My ribs weren't, though, and a protoplastic casing, exactly like the thoracic cavity, was substituted.
Man Made Albert Teichner
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Her miracles may not have been of the irreducible protoplastic order, but they had been miracles to the practical
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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It is a complete organism, protoplastic it may be, with the chlorophyll of age colouring its institutions, but none the less a perfect, living entity.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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I left my garden a paradise, as paradises go in this protoplastic world; and when I returned, the trail of the serpent was over it all, so to speak.
My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I left my garden a paradise, as paradises go in this protoplastic world; and when I returned, the trail of the serpent was over it all, so to speak.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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He was conscious of a constitutional change sweeping like a tempest over his protoplastic tissue.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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"I would I were a protoplastic monad!" may sound very rhythmical, poetical, and all that; but even for a Baboo the aspiration is not an easy one to gratify.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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