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Word: Idioplasm
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in American Naturalist. After German Idioplasma (C. von NägeliMechanisch-physiologische Theorie der Abstammungslehre i. 23
Definition:
(Nägeli's term for) the special portion of protoplasm in a cell which is supposed to determine the character of the resulting organism.
