Usually means: Small, circular, extrachromosomal DNA molecule.
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  1. plasmid: Merriam-Webster
  2. plasmid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plasmid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plasmid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plasmid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plasmid, plasmid: Wordnik
  7. plasmid: Wiktionary
  8. plasmid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. plasmid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. plasmid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. plasmid: Dictionary.com
  12. Plasmid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Plasmid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. plasmid: Rhymezone
  15. Plasmid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. plasmid: FreeDictionary.org
  17. plasmid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. plasmid: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plasmid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. plasmid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Plasmid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  7. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Molecular Biology Glossary (No longer online)
  9. plasmid: Medical dictionary
  10. Plasmid: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. plasmid: Evolution Glossary
  3. plasmid: Natural History Terms
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plasmid)

noun:  (cytology) A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from — and replicates independently of — the chromosomes; such loops are most commonly found in bacteria, but they are also sometimes found in archaeans and eukaryotic cells, and they are used in genetic engineering as a vector for gene transfer.

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