pseudocardinal /ˈsudoʊˌkɑɹdɪnəl/ noun2 •(historical) A cardinal appointed by an antipope and consequently seen as illegitimate by the pope and those who recognize him.It owes its origin to the schism which Alexander V. attempted to heal in 1409 by forming one body of his own (the legitimate) and of the pseudocardinals of the anti-pope Benedict XIII. — 1875 •A type of tooth found on the shells of some bivalve molluscs.Right valve with three pseudocardinal teeth, the front one being strongest, high and triangular, the second low and longer, the posterior one indistinctly differentiated from the hinge plate. — 1922 formspseudocardinals