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What is a pseudopod?

What is a pseudopod? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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. [from 19th c.]
  2. (zoology) A projection acting as a foot in certain insect larvae. [from 19th c.]
  3. By extension, an extension or projection from something. [from 20th c.]
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A second pseudopod followed with lightning rapidity, and in an instant the ship had been split from end to end!
It continued to move outward, and on the map it appeared like a pseudopod extruded by an enormous amoeba.
Distinguishing between a benign pseudopod and true invasion may, at times, be difficult.
This time a pseudopod emerged, and reached slowly out for him.
He lifted a pseudopod from primordial ooze, and the pseudopod was him.
Curiously, the Zark sent out a pseudopod of its substance through the open mouth of its disguise.

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