protoplasm

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the living contents of a cell, including its cytoplasm and nucleus

   Nineteenth-century materialists sometimes treated mind as a property of protoplasm.

From German Protoplasma, coined from Ancient Greek protos ("first") + plasma ("something formed or molded"). Nineteenth-century biology used it for the supposedly fundamental living substance of cells.

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