Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pseudopod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Protozoa, as pseudopods, rhizopods, or myxopods, a temporary diversiform prolongation or protrusion of the sarcode or body-substance of the animalcule, to any extent or in any shape, capable of being withdrawn or reabsorbed into the general mass of the body, and serving as an organ of locomotion, prehension, or ingestion; a pseudopod, or false foot: generally in the plural.
- noun In Rotifera, the aboral region, caudal extremity, or tail-end of a wheel-animalcule.
- noun In botany: In Musci, a false pedicel, or elongation of the extremity of a branch of the oöphyte, in the form of a stalk, supporting a sporogonium or capsule.
- noun In Mycetozoa, a protrusion of the protoplasm of an amœboid body, which may be drawn in, or into which the whole body may move.
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- noun Same as
pseudopod .
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- noun cytology
pseudopod
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- noun temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is no distinct seta, but the capsule is raised on a leafless outgrowth of the end of the branch called a pseudopodium (C, qs).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Ray Davis at pseudopodium likened them to elaborations of Wes Craven's early movies and other like-minded 70s flicks, and I think he's about right.
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B. Longitudinal section of the sporogonium borne on the pseudopodium (ps);
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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If one watches an amoeba under the microscope he may see it move about the field, creeping along the surface of the glass plate; throwing out a pseudopodium here; invaginating a mouth or stomach there; taking in and digesting minute plant organisms; transporting itself across the field of the microscope through the aid of improvised locomotory organs.
The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male Winfield Scott Hall
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The upper portion of the archegonial wall is carried up as a calyptra on the sporogonium, which, as in _Sphagnum_, has no seta and is raised on a pseudopodium.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The amoeba shrinks into itself at a touch, withdraws the pseudopodium that is roughly handled, or makes its way round the small object which will serve it as food.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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To be sure, some noisy ones went on shouting for revolution the very next day -- men, who had been talking formulas for twenty or thirty years, and had no more notion of a fact than they had of a pseudopodium.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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In locomotion the corpuscle pushes out a process of its substancea pseudopodium, as it is calledand then shifts the rest of the body into it.
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In the same way when any granule or particle comes in its way the corpuscle wraps a pseudopodium around it, and then withdraws the pseudopodium with the contained particle into its own substance.
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A very small form, first seen in the flagellated stage, aroused my interest by reason of the fact that its flagellum lost its regular outline and became amoeboid, turning to a pseudopodium, while at the same time other pseudopodia were protruded from different parts of the periphery.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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