noun
definition
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
definition
Protoplasm
Examples of plasm in a Sentence
The germ cells arise from a region of cytoplasm at the vegetal pole of the egg called the germ plasm.
The germ cells arise from a region of cytoplasm at the vegetal pole of the egg called the germ plasm at the vegetal pole of the egg called the germ plasm.
But whatever be the theory of the mode of inheritance, or the mechanism by which the germinal plasm of an individual is made up, it is plain that there is correlation between the various qualities of an individual due to the mode of origin of its germ plasm as a selected individual portion of the parental germ plasm.
An important consequence of thus giving the study of primitive religion the wide scope of a comparative hierology is that magic is no longer divorced from religion, since the sacred will now be found to be coextensive with the magicoreligious, that largely undifferentiated plasm out of which religion and magic slowly take separate shape as society comes more and more to contrast legitimate with illicit modes of dealing with the sacred.