| PLAST | • -plast suff. A small body, structure, particle, or granule, especially of living matter. • -plast suff. A plastid. • PLACE v. to assign to a position. |
| YPLAST | • yplast v. Past participle of place. • PLACE v. to assign to a position. |
| APOPLAST | • apoplast n. (Botany) The space outside of a plant’s plasma membrane through which water and soluble nutrients are… • APOPLAST n. the non-protoplasmic component of a plant, including the cell walls and intercellular material. |
| BIOPLAST | • bioplast n. (Biology) a mass or cell of bioplasm that is a unit of living matter; an independently existing mass of living matter. • BIOPLAST n. a tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle, also BIOBLAST. |
| SYMPLAST | • symplast n. (Biology) The inner side of the plasma membrane of a plant in which water can freely diffuse. • SYMPLAST n. the continuous network of protoplasts. |
| CYTOPLAST | • cytoplast n. (Biology) The intact cytoplasm of a cell from which the nucleus has been removed. • CYTOPLAST n. the intact cytoplasm of a single cell. |
| LIPOPLAST | • lipoplast n. (Botany) A small structure in seeds in which fat is stored. • LIPOPLAST n. a small particle in plant cytoplasm esp. that of seeds in which fat is stored. |
| OVERPLAST | • OVERPLAST adj. (Spenser) overplaced, placed above. |
| PERIPLAST | • periplast n. (Biology) periblast of algae. • periplast n. (Cytology) periplasm. • PERIPLAST n. an intercellular substance; the ectoplasm of flagellates. |
| TONOPLAST | • tonoplast n. (Cytology) The cytoplasmic membrane surrounding a vacuole, separating the vacuolar contents from the… • TONOPLAST n. a semipermeable membrane surrounding a plant vacuole. |
| AMYLOPLAST | • amyloplast n. (Biology) A specialized leucoplast responsible for the storage of amylopectin through the polymerization of glucose. • AMYLOPLAST n. a colourless plastid that forms and stores starch. |
| LEUCOPLAST | • leucoplast n. (Biology) An organelle found in certain plant cells, a non-pigmented category of plastid with various… • LEUCOPLAST n. a colorless plastid in the cytoplasm of plant cells around which starch collects. |
| PROTOPLAST | • protoplast adj. (Obsolete) Created first; archetypal. • protoplast n. The first-created human; Adam. • protoplast n. (Rare) A prototype or archetype; a model. |
| CHLOROPLAST | • chloroplast n. (Cytology) An organelle, found in the cells of green plants and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis… • CHLOROPLAST n. a plastid that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis. |
| CHROMOPLAST | • chromoplast n. (Biology) Any plastid in which a pigment is synthesized or stored. • CHROMOPLAST n. a colored plastid usually containing red or yellow pigment, such as carotene. |
| KINETOPLAST | • kinetoplast n. (Microbiology) A disk-shaped mass of circular DNA inside a large mitochondrion, found specifically in… • kinetoplast n. A kinetoplastid. • KINETOPLAST n. a DNA body located near the base of the flagellum in flagellate protozoa, also KINETONUCLEUS. |
| LIPIDOPLAST | • LIPIDOPLAST n. a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp. that of seeds, in which fat is stored. |
| SPHEROPLAST | • spheroplast n. (Cytology) A cell from which the cell wall has been removed. • SPHEROPLAST n. a bacterium or yeast cell that is modified, as by enzymatic action, so that there is partial loss of the cell wall and increased osmotic sensitivity. |
| PHRAGMOPLAST | • phragmoplast n. (Biology) A structure that forms in plant cells during late cytokinesis and serves as a scaffold for… • PHRAGMOPLAST n. the enlarged barrel-shaped spindle that is characteristic of the later stages of plant mitosis and within which the cell plate forms. |
| BLEPHAROPLAST | • blepharoplast n. A basal body. • BLEPHAROPLAST n. a basal body esp. of a flagellated cell. |