Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Protoplasmic.

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  • adjective cytology Of or relating to protoplasm.

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Examples

  • From the protoplasmal cell descends the genius; from the loins of the sodden toiler chained to the soil springs the mother of genius or genius itself.

    The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Gilbert added that Pooh-Bah was constantly followed by a small boy carrying an enormous volume to collect any scrap of evidence that Pooh-Bah can trace his ancestry back to "a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

    Durangoherald.com 2009

  • She loved the nights that were electrical, a static in the air and lightning in soft pulses, in great shapeless beats, you can almost read the rhythmic pattern, slow and protoplasmal, and maybe a Cinzano awning fixed to a table on a higher terrace—you can’t identify that gunshot sound until you spot the striped awning, edges snapping in the breeze.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She loved the nights that were electrical, a static in the air and lightning in soft pulses, in great shapeless beats, you can almost read the rhythmic pattern, slow and protoplasmal, and maybe a Cinzano awning fixed to a table on a higher terrace—you can’t identify that gunshot sound until you spot the striped awning, edges snapping in the breeze.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • She loved the nights that were electrical, a static in the air and lightning in soft pulses, in great shapeless beats, you can almost read the rhythmic pattern, slow and protoplasmal, and maybe a Cinzano awning fixed to a table on a higher terrace—you can’t identify that gunshot sound until you spot the striped awning, edges snapping in the breeze.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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