Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various one-celled free-living or parasitic protozoans having no definite form and moving by means of pseudopods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A rhizopod common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. Same as
ameba . Seerhizopoda .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A
genus ofunicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections calledpseudopodia . - noun mathematics The
graph of the real part of thelogarithms of apolynomial equation incomplex numbers .
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- noun naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term amoeba is sometimes used to refer to something with an indefinite, changeable shape.
amoeba 2002
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The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporise as occasion arises.
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868
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If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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What you said was "If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case."
Bunny and a Book 2008
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What you said was "If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case."
Bunny and a Book 2008
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If we're having trouble telling if an amoeba is intelligent it will scarcely affect our case.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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#63 Dyan; no even an amoeba is more intelligent than Bush.
Think Progress » Bush Works For Lasting Peace In The Middle East 2006
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You are using the terms amoeba and bacteria as though they are synonymous; they are not.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word amoeba
JM wonders if an amoeba gets splitting headaches?
June 19, 2011