Word Meanings - ECTOSARC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

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• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• PROTOPLASMIC
  Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• EXTERNALIZE
  To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
• LAYER
  That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• PROTOPLASM
  The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance,
• PROTOPLASMATIC
  Protoplasmic.
• EXOPLASM
  See ECTOPLASM
• EXTERNALISM
  That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism. (more info) 1. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.
• EXTERNALISTIC
  Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.
• AMOEBA
  A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.
• AMOEBAEUM
  A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
• SEMISOLID
  Partially solid.
• ECTOPLASM
  The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. The ectosarc of protozoan.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• SLAYER
  One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.
• UNDERLAYER
  A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth. Weale. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• OVERLAYER
  One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
• MISLAYER
  One who mislays.
• PIPELAYER; PIPE LAYER
  A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense, usually written as one word. (more info) 1. One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.