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Protoplast   Listen
noun
Protoplast  n.  
1.
The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.
2.
(Biol.) A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species. "A species is a class of individuals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts."






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"Protoplast" Quotes from Famous Books



... appear to have had an earlier date than here assigned. Cleiveland, in his Character of a London Diurnal, says, "the original sinner of this kind was Dutch; Gallo-belgicus the Protoplast, and the Modern Mercuries but Hans en kelders." Some intelligence given by Mercurius Gallo-belgicus is mentioned in Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 126, originally published in 1602. These vehicles of information are often mentioned in the plays of James and ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson



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