ERGASTIC


Meaning of ERGASTIC in English

|ər|gastik adjective

Etymology: Greek ergastikos able to work, industrious, from (assumed) ergastos (verbal of ergazesthai to work) + -ikos -ic

: constituting the nonliving by-products of protoplasmic activity

ergastic materials

— used chiefly of intracellular deposits (as of starch or fat) or of extracellular secretions; compare metaplasm

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