streaming movement
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n.
Movement characteristic of the protoplasm of white blood cells, amebas, and other unicellular organisms, involving massing of the protoplasm, its extrusion in the form of a pseudopod, and a flow of the protoplasmic mass into the pseudopod.
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Words nearby streaming movement
streambed, streamer, streamer fly, streamflow, streaming, streaming movement, streaming potential, streamlet, streamline, streamlined, streamline flow
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