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pseudopod|ps-, ˈsjuːdəʊpɒd|
Also -pode.
[In sense 1, ad. mod.L. pseudopodium; in senses 2 and 4, f. Gr. ψευδο- pseudo- + πούς, ποδ- foot; in sense 3, f. mod.L. Pseudopoda neut. pl.]
1. Zool. and Bot. = pseudopodium. Also fig.
1874Lubbock Orig. & Met. Ins. v. 101 The processes or pseudopods [in Magosphæra planula] grow gradually longer, thinner, and more pointed. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 596 Cells with elongated blunt pseudopods. 1951V. Nabokov Speak, Memory xi. 162 The undulating plump shadows of older foliage on the water..were rhythmically palpitating, extending and drawing in dark pseudopods. 1975N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 June 21/2 Gifts of memory and mimicry, and pseudopods of learning, extend what is only an essay into a thick ‘Anatomy’ of cosmic..speculation.
2. Zool. A process or projection serving as a foot in the larvæ of certain insects. (Cf. pro-leg.)
1900Miall & Hammond Harlequin Fly ii. 33 Pseudopods, or provisional larval feet, occur in most of the families.
3. Zool. A member of the former division Pseudopoda of Infusorians, comprising those having pseudopodia (now usually classed as Rhizopoda).
1890in Cent. Dict.
4. Spiritualism. (See quot. 1920.)
1920E. E. Fournier d'Albe tr. Schrenk Notzing's Phenom. Materialisation 25 The recent investigations by W. J. Crawford have shown that white light acts destructively on the pseudopods or psychic projections from the medium's body. 1945N. Collins London belongs to Me i. viii. 88 The medium was invited to materialise the ectoplasmic hand inside the wax. Then when the séance was over a cast of the pseudopod could be cast in plaster. |