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Pseudopod

Pseudopod \Pseu"do*pod\, n. [Pseudo- + -pod.]

  1. (Biol.) Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A rhizopod.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pseudopod

1862, from Modern Latin pseudopodium (itself in English from 1854), from Latinized form of Greek pseudo- (see pseudo-) + podion, diminutive of pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). Related: Pseudopodal.

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pseudopod

n. 1 (context cytology English) A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, such as amoebas, that serves in locomotion. (from 19th c.) 2 (context zoology English) A projection acting as a foot in certain insect larvae. (from 19th c.) 3 By extension, an extension or projection from something. (from 20th c.)

WordNet
pseudopod

n. temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion [syn: pseudopodium]

Wikipedia
Pseudopod (band)

Pseudopod is an American rock band, formed in 1998 in Los Angeles, California. The band is perhaps best known for winning Rolling Stone Magazine's award for the Best College Band in America contest in 2000.1 The band bested over 1,000 other college bands from across the country to win the award.

Pseudopod was formed in 1998 by Ross Grant, Tim McGregor, Brian Fox and Kevin Carlberg, who were all college students studying music at UCLA. While in school, the band released their first CD, entitled "Pod". After entering and winning Rolling Stone's MUSICOMANIA: Best College Band in America award in 2000, Pseudopod used the contest's prize money to create its demo CD, entitled Rest Assured. Inga Vainshtein, known for discovering and managing Jewel, became their manager and brought Pseudopod's album to legendary A&R man, Mark Williams, at Interscope Records. In 2002, Pseudopod released their debut self-titled CD under Interscope's label.

Pseudopod built a reputation for putting on entertaining live shows, complete with longer jams than the studio versions of their hits as well as ample improvisation from the band members. The band developed a loyal following in California and elsewhere, with fans freely sharing live bootlegs from the band's various shows.

Their name was inspired by a their biology subject. They hated biology and kept on asking why is there a science course in their program. Pseudopod has toured with several well-known musicians, including OAR, Blues Traveler and Maroon 5.

Category:Musical groups established in 1998

Pseudopod (podcast)

Pseudopod is a podcast launched on 11 August 2006 which presents horror genre short stories. It is part of Escape Artists, Inc. which also podcasts Escape Pod and PodCastle. Pseudopod is currently co-edited by Shawn M. Garrett and Alex Hofelich (the latter became co-editor in May, 2015) and hosted by Alasdair Stuart. It was previously edited by Ben Phillips until the end of 2010. Wil Wheaton calls Pseudopod "pretty damn awesome" and cites it as an example of how new media is changing the broadcast landscape.

The stories it runs are usually between 2000 and 6000 words in length. It also irregularly releases shorter flash fiction pieces and movie reviews.

Escape Artists has a policy against authors reading their own work. Many stories are read by people associated with Escape Artists and other members of the podcasting community.

Pseudopod is distributed under the Creative Commons attribution non-commercial no- derivatives 3.0 license. The fiction itself remains copyrighted by its respective authors. Pseudopod contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights, paying semi-professional rates.

Intro music is “Bloodletting on the Kiss” by Anders Manga.

Usage examples of "pseudopod".

Los Angeles police fought that homely extramural vice for a weary decade, until sprawling LA reached out a pseudopod one day and swallowed Venice up.

First, we have no evidence that any other bits, pieces, pseudopods, or extrusions of the Foe other than the ones Robin encountered on Tahiti exist anywhere else in the Galaxy.

Her body ached wherever the pseudopods had touched, and energy flowed out from those touches like blood from a wound.

They twitched threateningly, extending ebon pseudopods to try and trip him as he fled from something monstrous that was darker than dark.

This time Hamid-Jones recognized a sort of striped caterpillar that extruded infinities of striped pseudopods into a jewel-like continuum.

By connecting brain synapses to special nodes, the intelligent child could manipulate a shell with extendable pseudopods that would allow it to move, manipulate tools or keyboards.

According to VISAR, they could shed their roots and migrate downhill on bulbous pseudopods if the soil became too dry.

Once let his fellow amoeboids get their pseudopods on him again, and he was a gone protozoan.

The micrograph showed the bug, with its bacteria-like lack of a nucleus, its amoeba-like pseudopods and irregular cellular borders, and its just-plain-weird ribosome clusters and endoplasmic reticulum, plus some things not even Marlowe could identify.

Its pseudopods of plastic flesh thinned into two molecule thicknesses and pressed through the vat, beyond the Isolator station and into the warm sands of Earth's desert.

He's really no more than a pseudopod that the group mind, the overflock, puts out front to do business with ordinary normies and special insane normies like us.

The longest dimension was five or six times the shortest, including two fat tentacles or pseudopods extending toward Compassionate Hand territory.

What should have been arms were elongated pseudopods that grew and receded like soft dough.

Now a hundred rays were leaping toward the thing, and the rays burst into fire and gouts of light, blackened, burned pseudopods seemed to fall from the thing and hastily it retreated from the enclosure, flowing once more through the wall that stopped their rays.