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.

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  • adjective of, or relating to protoplast
  • adjective obsolete prototypical

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Not only did my own blood course through the protoplastic but I could feel it doing so.

    Man Made Albert Teichner

  • My ribs weren't, though, and a protoplastic casing, exactly like the thoracic cavity, was substituted.

    Man Made Albert Teichner

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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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