plasmolyten.
/ˈplazməlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈplæzməˌlaɪt/ Biology.
= plasmolyticum n.
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1927 Biol. Abstr. 1 238/2 The increase in volume after full plasmolysis is due to penetration of the plasmolyte.
1935 Plant Physiol. 10 119 That concentration of a harmless non-permeable plasmolyte which at osmotic equilibrium causes the protoplasm to recede ever so little from the cell wall.
1964 J. Levitt in D. W. Newman Instrumental Methods Exper. Biol. xiii. 419 Potassium nitrate was the plasmolyte used by many of the earlier investigators.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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