Definitions

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  • adjective Having the characteristics of an amoeba.

Etymologies

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From amoeba +‎ -like.

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Examples

  • The funding came a full six months before last December's disputed Kenyan election and the subsequent wave of violence that is now flowing, amoebalike, across the country.

    Gangs of Nairobi 2008

  • Splinter groups of splinter groups all loosely related to the vast amoebalike Gong phenomena, a band famous for its theatrical indulgence and hobbitlike eccentricities.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Denevan neural parasites which are believed to have originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy and are named for a Federation colony world they infested in 2267 are gelatinous, amoebalike life-forms analogous in structure to over sized brain cells.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Denevan neural parasites which are believed to have originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy and are named for a Federation colony world they infested in 2267 are gelatinous, amoebalike life-forms analogous in structure to over sized brain cells.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Denevan neural parasites which are believed to have originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy and are named for a Federation colony world they infested in 2267 are gelatinous, amoebalike life-forms analogous in structure to over sized brain cells.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • Denevan neural parasites which are believed to have originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy and are named for a Federation colony world they infested in 2267 are gelatinous, amoebalike life-forms analogous in structure to over sized brain cells.

    The Starfleet Survival Guide David Mack 2002

  • It was a couple of years now since the first Intrepid had run afoul of the space-going amoebalike creature that Enterprise, with a lot of help from Spock, had managed to destroy.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • It was a couple of years now since the first Intrepid had run afoul of the space-going amoebalike creature that Enterprise, with a lot of help from Spock, had managed to destroy.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • It was several years now since the first Intrepid had run afoul of the spacegoing amoebalike creature that Enterprise, with a lot of help from Spock, had managed to destroy.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • It was several years now since the first Intrepid had run afoul of the spacegoing amoebalike creature that Enterprise, with a lot of help from Spock, had managed to destroy.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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