Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
pseudopodium .
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- noun Plural form of
pseudopod . - noun Plural form of
pseudopodium .
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Examples
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They can create extensions of their body wall called pseudopodia that help them locomote or capture prey or simply churn up their insides to distribute nutrients.
Protozoa 2008
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Rhizopoda means "root-footed," and the name is applied to these animals because most of them move about by means of root-like processes known as pseudopodia or "false feet."
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Its form is not constant during activity, for fingerlike processes called pseudopodia are pushed out tentatively in many directions to be followed as circumstances direct by the materials of the whole cell body.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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These thrust-out parts, in its outline, are called pseudopodia (ps.).
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Without this switch mutant amoebas extended false feet called pseudopodia in all directions and wandered aimlessly as Ras flickered on and off at random points on their surfaces.
Media Newswire 2008
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Without this switch mutant amoebas extended false feet called pseudopodia in all directions and wandered aimlessly as Ras flickered on and off at random points on their surfaces.
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The strange thing was pulsating irritably at him, tapping some kind of pseudopodia on the desk.
Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992
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I pictured the Gulag fleeing Russia and oozing across the bottom of the Pacific, pseudopodia groping, to its new home in the Land of the Free.
common ground 2005
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I pictured the Gulag fleeing Russia and oozing across the bottom of the Pacific, pseudopodia groping, to its new home in the Land of the Free.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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A great amoeba floated majestically in darkness before me, pseudopodia flowing slowly, slowly, in welcoming embrace.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
chained_bear commented on the word pseudopodia
"I was seeing in vivid memory the slides of Entameba, greedy pseudopodia flowing in slow-motion appetite. Water, I heard water flowing; it lived in water, though only the cystic form was infective..."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 561
February 1, 2010