epiplasmn.
/ˈɛpɪplaz(ə)m/ Biology.
Protoplasm remaining over after the formation of spores.
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1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi iii. 77 After the orientation of the spores the protoplasm of the ascus shows the characters of a substance, for which I formerly proposed the name of epiplasm.
1906 Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. 96 [Sporozoa] Some of the cytoplasm of the original cells remains over unused, as ‘epiplasm’, and ultimately degenerates.
1947 Nature 11 Jan. 64/1 When the cytoplasm is cut off from the nuclear vacuole by the spore wall, volutin accumulates in the epiplasm.
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epiˈplasmic adj.
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