Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. Same as Plasma.
A silicious mineral of a color between grass green and leek green, occurring in angular pieces in beds, associated with common chalcedony, and among the ruins of Rome.
1. A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
2. The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
3. Unorganized material; elementary matter.
4. A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
Giving shape; having the power of giving form.
Alt. of Plasmatical
1. Forming; shaping; molding.
The act of forming or molding.
A former; a fashioner.
Form; mold.
A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.
of Plasmodium
Of or pertaining to, or like, a plasmodium; as, the plasmodial form of a life cycle.
1. A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.
2. A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.
The important living portion of protoplasm, considered a chemical substance of the highest elaboration. Germ plasm and idioplasm are forms of plasmogen.
Prototype Roget’s Thesaurus §22
N. prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type, archetype, antitype, protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm, lay-figure, text, copy, design, fugleman, keynote, die, mold, matrix, last, plasm, proplasm, protoplasm, mint, seal, punch, intaglio, negative, stamp
V. be an example, be a role model, set an example, set a copy
Phr. a precedent embalms a principle, exempla sunt odiosa, 4, general relation
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