Definition of Bioplast

1. n. A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

Definition of Bioplast

1. Noun. (biology) a mass or cell of bioplasm that is a unit of living matter; an independently existing mass of living matter ¹

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Definition of Bioplast

1. a minute portion of protoplasm [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bioplast

1. A mass of live protoplasm which is functionally independent of other living things. An amebic cell. (21 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bioplast

biophyte
biophytes
biopic
biopics
biopiracies
biopiracy
biopirate
biopirates
biopixel
biopixels
bioplasm
bioplasma
bioplasmas
bioplasmic
bioplasms
bioplast (current term)
bioplastic
bioplastics
bioplasts
biopoesis
biopoetics
biopolitical
biopolitically
biopolitics
biopolymer
biopolymers
biopotency
biopotential
biopower
biopreparation

Literary usage of Bioplast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Problem of problems, and its various solutions, or, Atheism, Darwinism by Clark Braden (1879)
"In self-subdivision each bioplast becomes a new bioplast. \Vhen tin--. ... Chemistry can not produce the work of the bioplast j or explain it. ..."

2. Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr by Joseph Cook (1879)
"Every particle of your muscle, nerve, or bone, has once been a bioplast. ... That in the cell of an organic tissue the central portion is always a bioplast. ..."

3. Protoplasm: Or, Matter and Life. With Some Remarks Upon the "Confession" of by Lionel Smith Beale (1874)
"I venture to think sucn terms as blood-bioplast, lymph-bioplast, pus-bioplast, tissue-bioplast, nerve- and muscle-bioplast, &c., have many advantages over ..."

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