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- proper noun A taxonomic
subphylum within thephylum Amoebozoa .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek.
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The tiny Protamoebae, which are found both in fresh and salt water, have the same unshapely form and irregular movements of their simple naked body as the real Amoebae; but they differ from them very materially in having no nucleus in their cell-body.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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