Actinopoda

plural noun

Ac·​ti·​nop·​o·​da

ˌak-tə-ˈnä-pə-də

1

in former classifications : an order of holothurians with tentacles arising from radial ambulacral vessels

2

: a subclass of Sarcodina comprising usually freely floating protozoans with highly specialized pseudopodia and including the orders Heliozoa and Radiolaria compare axopodium

actinopodian

ˌak-tə-(ˌ)nō-ˈpō-dē-ən

noun

plural -s

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from actin- + -poda

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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