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.

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