Protoplast

Definition: Protoplast

Protoplast

Noun

1. A biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts.

Etymology: Protoplast \Pro"to*plast\, noun. [Latin expression protoplastus the first man, Greek formed or created first; first formed, from to form.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Biology & Biotechnology	A single plant cell, isolated following enzymatic removal of the cell wall, which is initially spherical. [It] is the ideal material for genetic transformation because its naked plasma membrane allows entry of foreign DNA, cell organelles, bacteria or virus particles. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	A membrane-bound cell from which the outer wall has been partially or completely removed. The term often is applied to plant cells. (references)
Food & Agriculture	The mass of protoplasm enclosed by a cell wall. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Protoplast

Synonym: energid (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Prototype	Noun: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-figure.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Protoplast

English words defined with "protoplast": Proto-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "protoplast": clonal propagation ♦ transfection. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Protoplast" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (protoplast), Swedish (protoplast).

Domain	Title
Books	Advances in Protoplast Research: Proceedings of the 5th International Protoplast Symposium, July 9-14, 1979, Szeged, Hungary (reference) Plant Protoplast and Genetic Engineering, Vol. 34 (reference) Progress in Plant Protoplast Research: Proceedings (Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, 7) (reference) Protoplast Fusion: Genetic Engineering in Higher Plants (Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Vol 8) (reference) Protoplasts 1983: Lecture Proceedings: 6th Intl Protoplast Symposium, Basel, August 12-16,1983 (Experientia. Supplementum, V. 46) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Protoplast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Protoplast" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "protoplast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏البروتوبلاستا محتوى الخلية البروتوبلازمي. (various references)

Bulgarian		оригинал (exemplar, original, prototype, script), първообраз (progenitor, prototype), първият човек, протопласт. (various references)

Chinese		原�"�质�". (various references)

Danish		protoplast. (various references)

Dutch		protoplast. (various references)

Finnish		protoplasti. (various references)

French		protoplaste. (various references)

German		Protoplast. (various references)

Greek		πρωτόπλαστο, πρωτοπλάστης. (various references)

Hungarian		prototípus (pilot model, prototype). (various references)

Italian		protoplasto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		プロテスタント教会 (produce, producer, producer system, protest, protest song, Protestant Church, protoactinium, protocol, proton, prototype, prototyping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		プロトプラスト . (various references)

Pig Latin		otoplastpray

Portuguese		protoplasto. (various references)

Romanian		masã de protoplasmã. (various references)

Russian		протопласт, первый человек (first man). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		protoplast. (various references)

Spanish		protoplasto. (various references)

Swedish		protoplast. (various references)

Ukrainian		творець (architect, author, creator, demiurge, father, former, maker, molder, moulder, original, originator), оригінал (archetype, nonconformist, original, text), прототип (antetype, archetype, double, original, prototype), протопласт, прообраз (foretype, prefiguration), перша людина. (various references)

Vietnamese		nguyên mẫu (archetype, prototype), con người đầu tiên nguyên hình. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "protoplast": protoplasts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "protoplast" (pronounced 'Pro"to*plast'): Bioplast, Chiroplast, Chloroplast, Cystoplast, Leukoplast, Mesoplast, Metaplast, Monoplast, Odontoplast, Osteoplast, Periplast, Voltaplast. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: postoral, proposal, stolport, taproots.
	-3 letters: apropos, laptops, patrols, poplars, portals, taproot.
	-4 letters: laptop, lottos, orlops, ottars, parols, pastor, patrol, polars, poplar, portal, postal, potato, pottos, saloop, sporal, stator, tarots, tolars, totals, troops.
	-5 letters: altos, aport, loops, loots, lotas, lotos, lotto, opals, orals, orlop, ottar, ottos, palps, parol, parts, plats, plops, plots, polar, polos, pools.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: protoplasts.
	+2 letters: protoplanets.
	+4 letters: postcopulatory, spatiotemporal.
	+5 letters: postoperatively.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
protoplast	18
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Protoplast

Definition: Protoplast

Protoplast

Noun

Specialty Definition: Protoplast

Biology & Biotechnology

Environment

Food & Agriculture

Synonym: Protoplast

Synonyms within Context: Protoplast

Prototype

Crosswords: Protoplast

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