pseudopod

A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, especially amoebas, that serves in locomotion and phagocytosis.

In entomology, any one of the structures which function as feet in many insect larvæ, as spines, thickenings, or other modifications of the integument.

A member of the Pseudopoda, as an amœba; any protozoan which is provided with pseudopodia, or has the power of protruding diversiform parts of its sarcode in the form of pseudopodia. serving as temporary organs of locomotion; a rhizopod; a myxopod.

A pseudopodium.

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

A rhizopod.

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