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Word: Periplast
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From peri- + -plast
Definition:
Originally: †a cell wall (obsolete). Now: specifically the wall of a unicellular organism, especially that of an alga of the division Cryptophyta, consisting of stiff proteinaceous plates.
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