Medical Dictionary

1Rhizopoda

noun pl Rhi·zop·o·da \rī-ˈzäp-ə-də\

Medical Definition of RHIZOPODA

:  a subclass of the class Sarcodina comprising usually creeping protozoans (as an ameba or a foraminifer) having lobate or rootlike pseudopodia
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