Definition of Protistic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to protists. ¹

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Definition of Protistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Protistic

prothrombotic
prothyalosome
prothyl
prothyls
prothétique
protiated
protic
protide
protides
protip
protirelin
protirement
protist
protistan
protistans
protistic (current term)
protistologist
protistologists
protistology
protists
protium
protiums
proto
proto(a)
proto-
proto-industries
proto-industry
proto-language
proto-languages
proto-oncogene

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. ..."

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