Temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion

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.