anastate
English edit
Etymology edit
Ancient Greek ἀναστάτης (anastátēs, “destroyer”)
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Noun edit
anastate (plural anastates)
- (biology) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm.
- 1888, Biology Pamphlets, volume 1278:
- if the reproductive elements start with a specific protoplasm continuous with that of the combined mother ovum and fertilizing sperm — that is , with a concentrated accumulation of characteristic anastates and katastates […]
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References edit
“anastate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.