rhizopodn.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Physiol. (ed. 3) §285. 254 From the polythalamous shells of Cephalopods..those of Rhizopods may be distinguished by the absence of that single definite siphuncular aperture.

1889 Lancet 28 Sept. 671/2 M. Certes has given the drawings of the rhizopodes, the infusoria, brought up from a depth of 7000 metres.

1910 Science 9 Sept. 349/2 Of the undetermined species, two were rhizopods and six ciliates.

1953 H. Mellanby Animal Life in Fresh Water (ed. 5) xiv. 275 During most of their active life all Rhizopods are ‘amoeboid’.

1962 Times 9 Aug. 11/5 Mr. Russell's great vision embraces more, and senses more:..from the rhizopod in the mud to the hawk in the sky.

2002 P. Herring Biol. Deep Ocean App. 275 The even larger.., much-branched, sponge-like xenophyophores..are giant testate rhizopods (amoebae) and not foraminiferans.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1093/2 Rhizopodium, term by C. G. Ehrenberg for the..assemblage of tubulous intercrossed filaments which originate from the development of the sporules of mushrooms..: a rhizopode.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 975/2 Rhizopod, or Rhizopodium, the mycelium or spawn of fungals.

1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation II. xvi. 51 Ray-streamers, or Rhizopods. (Root-feet.)

1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. iii. 119 Thread-like pseudopodia that branch and anastomose into networks are termed reticulopods or rhizopods.

1985 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 49 1328/1 Shell length, amount of protoplasm in the shell, rhizopod condition, spine length, and presence and distribution of symbionts..were measured.