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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The cytoplasm of a germ cell, especially that part containing the chromosomes.
  2. n. Germ cells as distinguished from other body cells.
  3. n. Hereditary material; genes. Also called plasm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as germ-plasma.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biology The cytoplasm of germ cells

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Biol.) See plasmogen, and idioplasm.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes

Etymologies

  1. germ +‎ plasm (Wiktionary)

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  1. protoplasm
  1. living substance

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  1. germinable
  2. paragerm-plasm
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  1. id
  2. organization
  3. plasm
  1. blastogenic
  2. selection
  3. chromatin
  1. soma-plasm
  2. Weismannism
  3. somatoplasm
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  2. plasmogen
  3. body-plasm
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