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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as germ-plasma.

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

  • (Biol.) See plasmogen, and idioplasm.

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  • noun biology The cytoplasm of germ cells

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  • noun the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes

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germ +‎ plasm

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