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plural pseudopods or pseudopodia
(cytology) A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, such as amoebas, that serves in locomotion.
(zoology) A projection acting as a foot in certain insect larvae.
(by extension) An extension or projection from something. quotations examples
A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.
1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror