The cells are filled with a fluid or semifluid mass of living (protoplasmic) matter.
But these and other views are not as yet fully understood; while they utterly fail to tell us how a collection of simple cells, filled merely with a semifluid mass of matter, can contract and set free muscular power.
Ultimately the semifluid food, much of it still undigested, is allowed to pass in small amounts through the pyloric valve, into the small intestine.
The locomotion is accomplished by a streaming or flowing of the semifluid protoplasm.
Food may be taken into the body at any point, the semifluid protoplasm simply rolling over and engulfing the food material.
It is the duty of these cells to absorb the semifluid food from within the intestine.
The cell body is almost transparent, and consists of semifluid protoplasm which has a granular grayish appearance under the microscope.
The embryo sac is an ovoid space, microscopic in size, filled withsemifluid protoplasm containing several nuclei.
They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid hæmoglobin and other matters.
Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.
By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained.
The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
They secrete an oily semifluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.
Defn: Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.
Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.
They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid h\'91moglobin and other matters.
Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.
And not only was this gradually discovered, but it was found that these semifluid contents of the plant cell had, in many cases, a remarkable power of contractility quite like that of the substance of animals.
The whole hair consists of a very delicate outer case of wood, closely applied to the inner surface of which is a layer of semifluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness.
This semifluid lining is protoplasm, which thus constitutes a kind of bag, full of a limpid liquid, and roughly corresponding in form with the interior of the hair which it fills.
In the sáwahs of Java the fields are previously ploughed, inundated, and laboured by animals and hoeing, until the mould is converted into a semifluid mire: they then are considered fit to receive the young plants.
The indigo prepared by the natives is of an indifferent quality, and in a semifluid state, and contains much quick-lime; but that prepared by Europeans is of very superior quality.
