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- noun Any of numerous amoeboid protozoans of the former phylum Rhizopoda, such as the radiolarians, characteristically having stiff thin pseudopods containing microtubules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with pseudopods, as an animalcule: having processes of sarcode, as if roots, by means of which the animalcule is attached or moves; root-footed; specifically, of or pertaining to the Rhizopoda, in any sense. Also
rhizopodous . - noun A member of the Rhizopoda, in any sense.
- noun In botany, same as
rhizopodium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Rhizopoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the
taxonomic superclass of Rhizopoda being a type ofamoeboid single cell life withpseudopods not supported by regular array ofmicrotubules .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun protozoa characterized by a pseudopod
Etymologies
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Examples
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Radiocarbon-dated pollen, rhizopod, chironomid and total organic carbon (TOC) records from Nikolay Lake (73j20VN, 124j12VE) and a pollen record from a nearby peat sequence are used for a detailed environmental reconstruction of the Holocene in the Lena Delta area.
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"He's just a damn rhizopod," I growled; "and I don't like him."
Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963
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The process was repeated two or three times under my observation, so that I am convinced that it was not a developmental form of some rhizopod.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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A form which I have taken to be a young stage of this interesting rhizopod is described as follows:
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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The diatoms have each one a tiny shell or shield, not made of lime like the rhizopod-shells, but of flint.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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(Figures 2.234 and 2.235) is externally very similar to a large rhizopod (described by the same name in 1862) of the family of the
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Merocytes of a shark-embryo, rhizopod-like yelk-cells underneath the embryonic cavity (B).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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And it is because of the light which the amoeba thus incidentally casts upon the nature of the specialised senses in higher animals that I have ventured once more to drag out of the private life of his native pond that already too notorious and obtrusive rhizopod.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Professor Claus has looked at this latter organism, and thinks that it is the shell of a rhizopod, probably one of the Arcellidae.
Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845
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(astrocytes), and behaves just like a rhizopod (such as Gromia); it sends out numbers of stellate processes all round, which ramify and stretch into the surrounding food-yelk.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
chained_bear commented on the word rhizopod
"'Perhaps if he were given a microscope, a good compound microscope with a variety of eyepieces and an ample stage, he might take great pleasure in some of the smaller forms, the rhizopods, the rotifera, the parasites of lice themselves... I knew an old gentleman, an Anglican parson, who delighted in mites.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 353
March 9, 2008