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Definition of Protistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protistic
Literary usage of Protistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin by H. Charlton Bastian (1872)
"In view of this hypothesis, or of certain modifications thereof, concerning
protistic life, it is most interesting for us to learn, from the analyses of Dr. ..."
2. The Beginnings of Life: Being Some Account of the Nature, Modes of Origin by H. Charlton Bastian (1872)
"In view of this hypothesis, or of certain modifications thereof, concerning
protistic life, it is most interesting for us to learn, from the analyses of Dr. ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... conditions of protistic life and reproduction in a manner worthy of modern
scientific research, and not attained by some who took the opposite side ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... vesicular " nucleus, with dense central mass " karyosome " (a frequent type
of protistic nucleus). ..."
5. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1917)
"... that which ii faintly traceable in some sensitive plants on Earth and more
distinctly in the protistic monera.889 On our globe, during the first round, ..."
6. Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley (1884)
"Some of the Monera acquired tendencies towards the protistic, others towards the
Vegetal, and others towards the Animal modes of life. ..."