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Protoplasta
- - A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.
Protoplasts
- noun - a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts
Protopodite
- - The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.
Protosomite
- - One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
Prototheria
- noun - echidnas; platypus
Protoxidize
- - To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
Protractile
- adjective - able to be extended; "protractile muscle"
Protracting
- verb - lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
Protraction
- noun - the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks"
- the consequence of being lengthened in duration