pseudopodiumn.

1844 G. A. Mantell Medals of Creation I. vii. 234 It has also several long, soft, transparent contractile feelers, called pseudopodia (false-feet).

1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 466 There are also several soft transparent feelers or pseudopodia, which are instruments of locomotion.

1858 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 3) ii. ii. 265 Finger-like processes, called pseudopodia, which it appears to have the power of shooting out from any part of its substance.

1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (1877) 18 Each pseudopodium is evidently, at first, an extension of the denser clear substance (ectosarc) only.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 4 Note how pseudopodia are thrust out and how the body is pulled after them.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xvii. 245 The white corpuscles are frequently called amebocytes because of the fact that they have the power to thrust out pseudopodia and to carry on independent movement.

1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. v. 36 Particles captured by the collars [of the choanocytes of a sponge] become ingested by pseudopodia formed from an area around the funnel.

1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 32 Several species of mosses are furnished with gemmæ or pseudopodia, which consist of powdery or granulated heads terminating an elongated and almost leafless portion of the stem.

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 161/2 In Sphagnum, the sporogonium is fully developed within the epigonal leaves, and when complete the axis beneath it elongates, forming the pseudopodium.

1955 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. (ed. 2) II. v. 106 Andreaea is similar to Sphagnum in that there is a differentiation of a pseudopodium at the apex of the gametophyte.

1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 97 In bog mosses Sphagnum there is no seta but the capsule is raised up on a part of the gametophyte called the pseudopodium.

2013 B. Goffinet & W. R. Buck in B. A. Ambrose & M. Purugganan Evol. Plant Form ii. 73 Only in Sphagnum and Andreaea is the capsule elevated by a pseudopodium of gametophytic origin.

1898 A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. I. viii. 299 The posterior end of the body tapers, and is called the foot or pseudopodium;..the joints are often telescopically retractile.

a1902 S. Butler Note-bks. (1912) xii. 196 My reviewers felt no sense of need to understand me... When the time comes that they want to do so they will throw out a little mental pseudopodium without much difficulty.

1916 Geogr. Jrnl. 48 55 The glaciers..clinging amœba-fashion to the mountain side and sending icy pseudopodia creeping down the cliffs.

1966 Theory into Pract. 5 49/2 This type of innovation is..a kind of pseudopodium the school system runs out to take care of a need without requiring any understanding or commitment on the part of the total staff.

2004 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 22 Aug. The red-brick pseudopodia that were stretching out from the bodies of British cities.

1859 Proc. Royal Soc. 10 508 Its walls are perforated with numerous large pseudopodian foramina.

1896 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 7 429 The pseudopodian movements of contraction and relaxation.

1921 E. Penard in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 73 107 As to the function of these special elements, for which we might use the term ‘flagellopodia’, in their rigid, pseudopodian state, they must be considered as prehensile organs.