{ Plas"tid (?), Plas"tide (?), } n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a creator.] 1.
(Biol.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode.
See the Note under Morphon. Haeckel.
2. (Bot.) One of the many minute granules found in the protoplasm of
vegetable cells. They are divided by their colors into three classes,
chloroplastids, chromoplastids, and leucoplastids.
||Plas`ti*do*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, creator + &?;
||animal.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Protoza.
Plas"ti*dule (?), n. [Dim. fr. Plastid.] (Biol.) One of the small
particles or organic molecules of protoplasm. Haeckel.
Plas"tin (?), n. [Gr. &?; to form, mold.] (Biol.) A substance
associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the
fundamental substance of the nucleus.
Plas*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; fored, molded + &?; to write.] 1.
The art of forming figures in any plastic material.