deutoplasm

English

Etymology

From deuto- +‎ plasm.

Noun

deutoplasm (usually uncountable, plural deutoplasms)

1. (biology) The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance.

Derived terms

• deutoplasmic
• deutoplastic

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deutoplasm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)