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adjectiveprotoplasmic (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyOf or relating to protoplasm.
- not comparableIn the earliest stages of development; raw, fundamental, unformed.
When they did think of course they went wrong. Their budding science easily went astray. Religion with them had as yet taken no definite shape; science was equally protoplasmic; and all they had was a queer jumble of the two in the form of Magic.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 78
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cytoplasmicendoplasmicorgasmicperiplasmicsarcoplasmicintracytoplasmicnucleocytoplasmicplasmicalloplasmicanorgasmicanticytoplasmicantimycoplasmicaphantasmicapoplasmicaxoplasmicbioplasmicchasmicchiasmiccytonucleoplasmicdeutoplasmiceargasmicectoplasmicendocytoplasmicexocytoplasmic
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