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Definition of Rhizopoda
1. Noun. Creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers.
Group relationships: Class Sarcodina, Sarcodina
Member holonyms: Rhizopod, Rhizopodan, Amoebida, Amoebina, Order Amoebida, Order Amoebina, Foraminifera, Order Foraminifera, Order Testacea, Testacea
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Rhizopoda
1. n. pl. An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Amœbea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.
Medical Definition of Rhizopoda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhizopoda
Literary usage of Rhizopoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"rhizopoda in General The PROTOZOA which are included in the class rhizopoda have
been grouped into four principal orders according to the character of their ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Undoubtedly rhizopoda, Flagellata and Sporozoa are much closer to each other ...
Class I. rhizopoda. First of the Protozoa are those organisms which lack ..."
3. The Foraminifera: An Introduction to the Study of the Protozoa by Frederick Chapman (1902)
"The rhizopoda, according to Dujardin, constituted a family of the Infusoria, and
his arrangement comprised ... Another scheme of the rhizopoda was published ..."
4. Bulletin by Ohio State Geologist, Ohio Division of Geological Survey (1909)
"... and hence it is rather certain that the fauna of these formations is still
but imperfectly known. rhizopoda. There is but one rhizopoda, ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"Class I. rhizopoda. In the lowest position in the Protozoa must be placed those
... The term rhizopoda refers to the fact that the protoplasm sends out ..."
6. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1871)
"rhizopoda (including MONERA) . ... On some Freshwater rhizopoda, new or little
known. Fasciculus ii. Proc. R. Irish Ac. Dec. 1870. ..."
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