Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, especially amoebas, that serves in locomotion and phagocytosis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology, any one of the structures which function as feet in many insect larvæ, as spines, thickenings, or other modifications of the integument.
  • noun A member of the Pseudopoda, as an amœba; any protozoan which is provided with pseudopodia, or has the power of protruding diversiform parts of its sarcode in the form of pseudopodia. serving as temporary organs of locomotion; a rhizopod; a myxopod.
  • noun A pseudopodium.

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

  • noun (Biol.) Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A rhizopod.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion

Etymologies

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From pseudo- + -pod.

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Examples

  • As Unitarian Universalists, we can't be all "pseudopod" either because we also need our "nucleus" or congregational core for long-term stability and survival.

    Philocrites: Limits of Unitarian Universalist congregationalism. 2008

  • Hungry China has extended a pseudopod around Myanmar's oil and gas fields, timber and mines, and it is rapidly metabolizing the country's considerable natural resources.

    The New Dance With Myanmar John Bussey 2011

  • For a while there is a highway of mindlessly excited ants tromping back and forth between colony and food—a pseudopod reaching out for the food, if you will.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • For a while there is a highway of mindlessly excited ants tromping back and forth between colony and food—a pseudopod reaching out for the food, if you will.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The pheromone trail fades out, and the pseudopod dissolves.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The pheromone trail fades out, and the pseudopod dissolves.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • As the big organism pushed out a pseudopod a blobby sort of arm toward the swarm of polyhedral bits, the particles began to swirl in a lazy cloud around the big guy.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • As the big organism pushed out a pseudopod a blobby sort of arm toward the swarm of polyhedral bits, the particles began to swirl in a lazy cloud around the big guy.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

  • Four stubby wings protruded from the sides, one reaching toward Aya like the pseudopod of some metal bacteria.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • As the big organism pushed out a pseudopod a blobby sort of arm toward the swarm of polyhedral bits, the particles began to swirl in a lazy cloud around the big guy.

    Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

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