protoplast

[proh-tuh-plast] / ˈproʊ təˌplæst /

NOUN

original

Synonyms

STRONG

archetype coinage creation exemplar father forerunner invention master model novelty paradigm pattern precedent precursor prototype type

Example Sentences

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Stewart and his collaborators have developed a robot that performs an established technique called protoplast transformation faster and more accurately than is possible by hand.

From Nature • Nov. 1, 2016

Ferragut, on passing from one tank to the other, mentally established the gradation of the fauna from the primitive protoplast to the perfect organism.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

Verse cxxiv., protoplast, the original, the thing first formed.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

Shall this germ and protoplast of being Rest mid-life and say his race is run?

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford

The differentiation into nucleus and cytoplasm represents a division of labour in the protoplast.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)