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LIVING SUBSTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
Synonyms:
living substance; protoplasm
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("living substance" is a kind of...):
substance (the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living substance"):
cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)
karyoplasm; nucleoplasm (the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell)
germ plasm; plasm (the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes)
blood platelet; platelet; thrombocyte (tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting)
