1887 42 331 The action of these minute germ-like bodies causes the protoplasm of the cells of the root to assume plasmodium-like characters.
1898 P. Manson vi. 116 Plasmodium-like organisms.
1993 190 426/1 Unpressurized cells of A[chlya] bisexualis grew in the form of a plasmodium-like colony on solid media.