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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROTOPLASTA

Pro `to *plas "ta, n. pl. Etym: [NL. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.