Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to pseudopodia; forming or formed by pseudopodia: as, a pseudopodial process; pseudopodial movement; the pseudopodial aperture for the protrusion of pseudopodia in the test of a foraminifer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See
Illust. ofheliozoa .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
pseudopod or to pseudopodia.
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Examples
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The body is sometimes a little amoeboid, with short pseudopodial processes.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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A minute form without pseudopodial processes, extremely hyaline in appearance, and characterized by rapid flowing in one direction.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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The pseudopodial net that is contained in the cell maybe emerge through an opening or through many perforations in the test, and is specified by its small granules streaming in all directions.
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