protoplast

Meanings

Adjective

• Created first; archetypal.

Noun

• The first-created human; Adam.
• A prototype or archetype; a model.
• The first person in a given family, lineage etc.; an ancestor.
• The contents of a plant cell.

Origin

• From Middle French prothoplaste, and its source Late Latin protoplastus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος, from Ancient Greek πρωτο- + πλαστός.