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living substance - the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

protoplasm

substance - the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes"

cytol, cytoplasm - the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism

karyoplasm, nucleoplasm - the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell

germ plasm, plasm - the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes

blood platelet, platelet, thrombocyte - tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting

Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock.

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