Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A protozoan animal possessing pseudopodia, as distinguished from a mastigopod, one which has cilia or flagella; one of the Myxopoda. See cut under Protomyxa.
  • Same as myxopodous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology A rhizopod or moneran.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek μύξα (muksa, "mucus, slime") +‎ -pod.

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