n. In grammar: A change or transmutation in a word by adding, transposing, or retrenching a syllable or letter.n. Formation of an oblique case or cases from a stem other than that of the nominative.n. In botany, protoplasm containing certain carbohydrates which are eventually separated from it in the formation of cell-walls or as secretions.n. In cytology, a collective term applied to lifeless or non-living substances or inclusions such as yolk-bodies, starch, pigment, etc., in the cell-protoplasm, as distinguished from the living substances.