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US
/əˈmibə/
]
[ UK /ɐmˈiːbɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɐmˈiːbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion
How To Use amoeba In A Sentence
- 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
- Like amoebas, the hotel chains expand until they collide and fight with neighboring rivals.
- The amoebae in the Unikont group are more closely related to animals than they are to other so-called amoebae in the other groups, such as ... Boing Boing
- Amoebae and bacteria are single-celled organisms.
- Maybe they didn't reproduce, didn't know how to, just split in two like amoebae. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
- Foraminifera, or forams, are abundant marine and freshwater amoebae with granulose, reticulating pseudopodia.
- Most inept alien The "blob" - a giant amoeba which, in the 1953 movie, terrorises the small community of Downington PA. The Guardian World News
- Most amoebae strains were obtained from the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (Windermere, United Kingdom).
- 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
- To counter this, water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba.