Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Amœba-like; undergoing frequent changes of shape, like an amœba; related to the amœbas.
- noun An amœba, or an animal or corpuscle of amœban character. See
amœba , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Resembling an amœba; amœba-shaped; changing in shape like an amœba.
- adjective movement produced, as in the amœba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
amebiform .
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Examples
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These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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We have already seen that the young egg-cell multiplies itself by simple binary division, after the manner of unicellular organisms in general -- thereby indicating, as also by its amoebiform movements, its fundamental identity with such organisms in kind.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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For in their early stages of development within the ovary the ova of the highest animals are likewise in the condition of naked cells, exhibiting amoebiform movements; the enveloping membrane of an ovum being the product of a later development.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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