sarcodic, a. Biol.
(sɑːˈkɒdɪk)
[f. sarcode + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, of the nature of sarcode; protoplasmic.
| 1864 Reader 2 Apr. 434/1 A spherical sarcodic mass. 1866 Darwin Orig. Spec. vi. (ed. 4) 216 Sarcodic tissue not furnished with any nerve. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 257 The ‘sarcodic expansions’, as the pseudopodia have been called. |