pseudopod's Usage Examples:

pseudopodiume but its response is purely instinctual, like an ameba producing pseudopodia?The armour-plates are often exquisitely sculptured, and may be produced into spines or perpendicular plates to give greater surface extension, as we find in other plankton organisms.

On the other hand, the uniciliate zoospores of Polyphagus have slightly amoeboid movements, and in this and the pseudopodium-like nature of the protoplasmic processes, such forms suggest resemblances to the Myxomycetes.

Note that these phagocytic cells are pushing out protoplasmic processes (pseudopodia) by which they grasp their victims.

In Hydra the odcyte is a large amoeboid cell, which sends out pseudopodia amongst the odgonia and absorbs nutriment from them.

The cortical plasma may protrude pseudopodia in the longitudinal groove; it contains trichocysts in several species, true nematocysts in Polykrikos.

Synonyms:

process, pseudopodium, appendage, outgrowth,

Antonyms:

increase, irreversible process, decrease, ending, fall,