pseudopodia
nounHow to pronounce pseudopodia:
Definition of pseudopodia:
- pseudopodia (noun):
- a temporary protrusion or retractile process of the cytoplasm of a cell (such as an amoeba or a white blood cell) that functions especially as an organ of locomotion or in taking up food or other particulate matter see amoeba illustration
Synonyms for pseudopodia:
pseudopod
pseudopodium
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- obliviously
- Machiavellian
- perspicacious
- ineffectual
- juxtaposition
- deliberately
- secretariat
- particularly
- pulchritudinous
- occasionally
- accommodation
- inescapable
- sophisticated
- infidelity
- unconquerable
- irrefutable
- extermination
- ingenuity
- frenetically
- irreparable
- equivocally
- paediatrician
- omnifarious
- denominator
- invariably
- traditionally
- inhabitable
- prodigiously
- grandiloquence
- idolization
- modernization
- inexpressible
- comparatively
- circumlocution
- apprehensible
- autological
- magniloquent
- cephalisation
- animadversion
- congratulations
- anniversary
- conglomeration
- infrequently
- unmeasurable
- miraculously
- unnaturally
- nonnegotiable
- geometrical
- postmeridian
- reinvigoration
- … more
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