There is no distinct seta, but the capsule is raised on a leafless outgrowth of the end of the branch called a pseudopodium (C, qs). From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
B. Longitudinal section of the sporogonium borne on the pseudopodium (ps). From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Ray Davis at pseudopodium likened them to elaborations of Wes Craven's early movies and other like-minded 70s flicks, and I think he's about right. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Wood on Michael Haneke] Reference
If one watches an amoeba under the microscope he may see it move about the field, creeping along the surface of the glass plate; throwing out a pseudopodium here; invaginating a mouth or stomach there; taking in and digesting minute plant organisms; transporting itself across the field of the microscope through the aid of improvised locomotory organs. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
In some cases the flagellum turns into a pseudopodium, and, conversely, the pseudopodium at one end may become. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
When the time comes that they want to do so they will throw out a little mental pseudopodium without much difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
In locomotion the corpuscle pushes out a process of its substancea pseudopodium, as it is calledand then shifts the rest of the body into it. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 2. The Blood] Reference
The amoeba shrinks into itself at a touch, withdraws the pseudopodium that is roughly handled, or makes its way round the small object which will serve it as food. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
In the same way when any granule or particle comes in its way the corpuscle wraps a pseudopodium around it, and then withdraws the pseudopodium with the contained particle into its own substance. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 2. The Blood] Reference
If we look through the microscope at a drop of water containing living arcellae, we may happen to see one of them lying on its back at the bottom of the drop, and making fruitless efforts for two or three minutes to lay hold of some fixed point by means of a pseudopodium. From Wordnik.com. [Unconscious Memory] Reference
'jelly specks,' the amoeba, moves itself about by changing the form of its body, extemporising a foot (or pseudopodium), first in one direction, and then in another; and then, when it has met with a nutritive particle, extemporises a stomach for its reception, by wrapping its soft body around it. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
A lonely pseudopodium I wandered on my course. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
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