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PROTOPLASM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

Synonyms:

living substance; protoplasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("protoplasm" is a kind of...):

substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoplasm"):

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

karyoplasm; nucleoplasm (the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell)

germ plasm; plasm (the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes)

blood platelet; platelet; thrombocyte (tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting)

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