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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoology, the inner or interior sarcode or protoplasm of the amœbæ or other protozoans, in any way distinguished from the exterior sarcodous substance or ectosarc; endoplasm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amœba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

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  • noun biology The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, such as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba.

Etymologies

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endo- + Ancient Greek for "flesh".

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