The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protoplasmic \Pro`to*plas"mic\, a.
Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.
Wiktionary
a. (context cytology English) Of or relating to protoplasm.
WordNet
Usage examples of "protoplasmic".
If acquired variations do not affect the germ plasm they cannot be inherited, and if the germ plasm is only a bit of protoplasmic substance handed down from generation to generation, we can not believe that acquired variations can influence it.
In the complex cell that was the Authority, he was no more than endoplasmic reticulum, a conduit between the nucleus that was the Colligatarch and the surging protoplasmic mass of mankind.
Hartnack within the delicate, structureless protoplasmic lining of the arms, excepting in each a single yellowish particle or modified nucleus.
The glands were blackened from the aggregation of their protoplasmic contents.
Alfred Tylor soon after his paper on the growth of trees and protoplasmic continuity was read before the Linnean Society - that is to say, in December, 1884 - and I proposed to make the theory concerning the subdivision of organic life into animal and vegetable, which I have broached in my concluding chapter, the main feature of the book.
The factors in this machine building are simply those of the fundamental vital properties of the simplest protoplasmic machine.
The human embryo passed through all these stages, from the protoplasmic unicell up--compressing the age-long drama of evolution into less than a year.
Little globules could now be seen in some of the uppermost cells of the pedicels, and the protoplasmic lining was slightly separated from the walls of the lower cells.
Then of an event, an argument, a dialectic euhemerism, protoplasmic or blastodermic?
It has a motile form which wanders around by means of protoplasmic streaming, but the colonies can also set rock-hard, setting their molecular systems in sugar like sporulating bacteria or algae that have to withstand ultralow temperatures.
They are, therefore, still in Secretly Supervised Status, which means that I have to maintain a staff of about two hundred agents on their planet, all encased in clumsy and uncomfortable protoplasmic disguises, to prevent them from blowing their silly selves up before the arrival of their spiritual millennium.
Each had more uniquenesses than were ever possible to a protoplasmic creature.