cytoplasmnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈsaɪ.tə.plæz.əm/us/ˈsaɪ.t̬ə.plæz.əm/specializedthe substance inside a cell that surrounds the cell's nucleus
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- Development is thus due in part to a qualitative division not of the nucleus but of the cytoplasm.
- Evidence soon accumulated that the cytoplasm of the egg stood for much in the differentiation of the embryo.
- Food particles, wastes, and other substances may also be present in the cytoplasm.
- The cytoplasm is the outer and softer part, the substance of the body of the cell.
- The general mass of material forming the cell is termed cytoplasm.