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LIVING SUBSTANCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does living substance mean?

• LIVING SUBSTANCE (noun)
The noun LIVING SUBSTANCE has 1 sense:

1. the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

Familiarity information: LIVING SUBSTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LIVING SUBSTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

living substance; protoplasm

Hypernyms ("living substance" is a kind of...):

matter; substance (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living substance"):

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

karyoplasm; nucleoplasm (the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell)

germ plasm; plasm (the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes)

blood platelet; platelet; thrombocyte (tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting)

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