n pl :  a subclass of the class Sarcodina comprising usu. creeping protozoans (as an ameba or a foraminifer) having lobate or rootlike pseudopodia
, n pl, syn of  SARCODINA.
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  rhi·zo·pod 
 
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