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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance;

2. the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ectoplasm \Ec"to*plasm\, n. [Ecto- + Gr. ? form.] (Biol.) (a) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. (b) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell. (c) The ectosarc of protozoan. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ectoplasm n 1: (spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance 2: the outer granule-free layer of cytoplasm
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "ectoplasm": animal cell, aura, bioplast, cell, cellular tissue, cellule, chromatoplasm, coenocyte, corpuscle, cytoplasm, ectoplasy, effluvium, emanation, endoplasm, energid, eucaryotic cell, exteriorized protoplasm, germ cell, plant cell, plasmodium, procaryotic cell, protoplasm, reticulum, somatic cell, syncytium, trophoplasm