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ACTINOPOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does actinopod mean?
• ACTINOPOD (noun)
The noun ACTINOPOD has 1 sense:
1. protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods
Familiarity information: ACTINOPOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("actinopod" is a kind of...):
sarcodine; sarcodinian (protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "actinopod"):
heliozoan (protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods)
radiolarian (protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods)
Holonyms ("actinopod" is a member of...):
Actinopoda; subclass Actinopoda (heliozoans; radiolarians)
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