PLASMODIUM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amoeboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

2.
n.

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.


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