Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Ehrenberg's system of classification (1836), a division of anenterous infusorians, containing those called
root-footed , or the Amœbæa, Arcellina, and Bacillaria. The term is disused, but is the origin of the very common words pseudopod and pseudopodium.
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The psuedopod holding the pulser chain retracted, dragging them over the flattened face which erupted with smaller pseudopoda to greedily grasp the pulsers.
Burning Brightly 2009
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