protoplast
[noun]
Synonyms: original, archetype, prototype

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protoplast noun. ['prǝʊtǝplast, -plɑ:st] M16.
[French protoplaste or late Latin protoplastus first created being (Adam) from Greek prōtoplastos, formed as PROTO- + plastos formed, moulded, from plassein to form, to mould. In branch II -plast app. taken as repr. Greek plastēs former, moulder.]
I.
1. The first formed, fashioned, or created thing or being of its kind; the original, the archetype; spec. (a) Theology the first created member of the human race; (b) the first example, the original, the model; (c) the first person of a line or series. M16.

2. Biology. The protoplasm of a single cell; esp. a living plant or bacterial cell whose cell wall has been removed. L19.

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protoplast
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3. The first fashioner or creator of a thing. E17.

■ proto'plastic adjective (a) of the nature of a protoplast; first formed; original, archetypal; (b) Biology = PROTOPLASMIC: M17.

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