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Pseudopodium

Pseudopodium \Pseu`do*po"di*um\, n.; pl. Pseudopodia. [NL.] Same as Pseudopod.

Wiktionary
pseudopodium

n. (context cytology English) pseudopod

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

  2. [also: pseudopodia (pl)]

Usage examples of "pseudopodium".

Instantly, the pseudopodium extended forward and began to stream through the breach, narrowing almost to a point as it passed through, expanding again on the other side.

Io, George Munster flowed gradually to the shovel, extended a pseudopodium, seized the shovel, and with it managed to dig a symbolic amount of soil.

One of its pseudopodia convulsed and its tip lathered in a spasm which, after an interval, fumbled forth a bulky old-style bound-in-boards volume which it placed on a small plastic table before Rachmael.

Because, in approaching Rachmael the better to harass him, it had forgotten about the finely probing pseudopodia of the eye-eater.

It reached, then, two pseudopodia toward its recently regrown optic organs.

As he watched, it extended a host of pseudopodia which burrowed inquisitively into the nearby foundations.

Its pseudopodia were dried up, shriveled to blackened snakes that lay inert on the brown grass.

It had halted the work, pulled its still-functioning pseudopodia painfully back into itself.

Its pseudopodia were twisted in one last decrepit action, a final shudder of effort.

I didn't touch one right then, but the sluggish way it sent out pseudopodia, I concluded that the one I was watching, at least, had a rather crusty skin—with jelly inside.

They quickly formed into two new pentagons, and then they relaxed into pseudopodia again, and continued devouring Harold.

Reproachfully, the buttlebot uncoiled its pseudopodia from around a chair leg, let down the hatch and scuttled out.