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protoplastic, a.|prəʊtəʊˈplæstɪk|
[f. protoplast1 + -ic: cf. plastic.]
1. Of the nature of a protoplast (see protoplast1 1); first formed; original, archetypal.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. v. viii. (1821) 170 Which issuing forth from God..is the protoplastic virtue of our being. 1660Howell Lexicon Poems 1 When our Protoplastick sire Lost Paradis. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. To Rdr. 7 A more correct Edition of the Protoplastick Copy. 1840F. Barham Alist 5 This divine or protoplastic Adam..is the divine idea or exemplar of humanity.
2. Biol. = protoplasmic.
1855Baden Powell Ess. 436 note, What the author terms the ‘primary mucus’, ‘schleim-substanz’, or protoplastic matter. 1898tr. Strasburger's Bot. i. i. 52 Rotation is the more frequent form of protoplastic movement in the cells of water-plants, while in land plants circulation is..the rule. |