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to encircle food organisms to ingest and for proper movement by extending and contraction.

to extend out from its cell body to engulf foreign bacteria.

: a temporary protrusion or retractile process of the cytoplasm of a cell that functions (as in an amoeba) especially in a locomotor or food gathering capacity - seamoeba illustration

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