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protoplasm Living contents of a plant or animal cell. It includes both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of cells.

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protoplasm The material comprising the living contents of a cell, i.e. all the substances in a cell except large vacuoles and material recently ingested or to be excreted. The term is no longer used; the material of the cell is now referred to as the cytoplasm, apart from the nucleoplasm inside the nucleus.

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protoplasm (proh-tŏ-plazm) n. the material of which living cells are made, which includes the cytoplasm and nucleus.
—protoplasmic adj.

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