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ACTINOPOD

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Protozoa having stiff rodlike radiating pseudopods

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Nouns denoting animals

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

sarcodine; sarcodinian (protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "actinopod"):

heliozoan (protozoa with spherical bodies and stiff radiating pseudopods)

radiolarian (protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods)

Holonyms ("actinopod" is a member of...):

Actinopoda; subclass Actinopoda (heliozoans; radiolarians)

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