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Plasmolysis vs Flaccid - What's the difference?

plasmolysis | flaccid |

As a noun plasmolysis

is (biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss.

As an adjective flaccid is

flabby.

plasmolysis

Noun

(plasmolyses)
  • (biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss
  • flaccid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Flabby.
  • * 1955 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , chapter 13, page 140:
  • Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
  • Soft; floppy.
  • * 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality , page 93:
  • They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
  • Lacking energy or vigor.
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  • Antonyms

    * erect * firm