Plasmolysis vs Flaccid - What's the difference?
plasmolysis | flaccid |
(biology) the shrinking of protoplasm away from the cell wall of a plant or bacterium due to water loss
Flabby.
* 1955 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , chapter 13, page 140:
Soft; floppy.
* 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality , page 93:
Lacking energy or vigor.
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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
English
(wikipedia plasmolysis)Noun
(plasmolyses)flaccid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]