plasmophagous

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Monera like the Chromacea, structureless green particles of plasm; afterwards real nucleated cells (first plasmodomous Protophyta, like the Palmella; then plasmophagous Protozoa, like the Amoeba).

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  1. Subsisting upon proteids which are obtained ready made, in the way that is characteristic of animals. Plants are plasmodomous; animals plasmophagous. Haeckel (trans.), Wonders of Life, p. 212.

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  • Monera like the Chromacea, structureless green particles of plasm; afterwards real nucleated cells (first plasmodomous Protophyta, like the Palmella; then plasmophagous Protozoa, like the Amoeba). —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
 

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