Relating to or consisting of archiplasm; pertaining to the primitive protoplasm of early embryos.
From 'archiplasm' plus the adjectival suffix '-ic,' allowing the noun to modify other words in biological contexts.
This is one of those words that reveals how scientists used to think about life—they believed there was a special 'first substance' that was different from regular protoplasm, a misconception that 'archiplasmic' keeps alive in the literature.
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