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Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa.

Same as Pseudopod.

tozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

rder of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

sion of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia.

ods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

acterized by a reticulated sructure. Reticulose rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Amoebea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.