['plazm?]
¦ noun
1. the colourless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
2. Physics a gas of positive ions and free electrons with little or no overall electric charge.
3. a bright green translucent ornamental variety of quartz.
4. (also plasm 'plaz(?)m) cytoplasm or protoplasm.
Derivatives
plasmatic adjective
plasmic adjective
Origin
C18 (in the sense 'mould, shape'): from late L., from Gk plasma, from plassein 'to shape'.