Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Living substance   /lˈɪvɪŋ sˈəbstəns/   Listen
Living substance

noun
1.
The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus).  Synonym: protoplasm.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Living substance" Quotes from Famous Books



... enormous gulf between them. It is no doubt perfectly true, in a certain sense, that all difference of function is a result of difference of structure; or, in other words, of difference in the combination of the primary molecular forces of living substance; and, starting from this undeniable axiom, objectors occasionally, and with much seeming plausibility, argue that the vast intellectual chasm between the Ape and Man implies a corresponding structural chasm in the organs ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



Words linked to "Living substance" :   karyoplasm, plasm, platelet, blood platelet, protoplasm, thrombocyte, germ plasm, cytol, nucleoplasm, substance, cytoplasm



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org