Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Protoplasm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such a layer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: plasma, blood plasma
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extracellular fluid, ECF
noun
the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: germ plasm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: protoplasm, living substance
History
From Late Latin plasma (“mold”) or Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”), in some cases via German Plasma or French plasme, like English plasma.
