sarcodo

English

Etymology

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835. Ancient Greek σαρκώδης (sarkṓdēs, “fleshy”). Compare sarcoid.

Noun

sarcodo (uncountable)

  1. (biology, obsolete) The gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
    • 1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom, page 48:
      In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]

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