PSEUDOPOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pseudopod mean? 

• PSEUDOPOD (noun)
  The noun PSEUDOPOD has 1 sense:

1. temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion

  Familiarity information: PSEUDOPOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSEUDOPOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pseudopod; pseudopodium

Hypernyms ("pseudopod" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

 Context examples 

A form of programmed cell death that begins when a cell receives internal or external signals, then proceeds through a series of characteristic stages typically including rounding-up of the cell, retraction of pseudopods, reduction of cellular volume (pyknosis), chromatin condensation, nuclear fragmentation (karyorrhexis), and plasma membrane blebbing, and ends with the death of the cell.

(Apoptosis, NCI Thesaurus)