Amoeba Definition

əmēbə
amebae, amebas, amoebae, amoebas
noun
amoebae, amoebas
A one-celled, microscopic organism belonging to any of several families of rhizopods that move and feed using pseudopodia and reproduce by fission; esp., any of a genus (Amoeba) found in soil or water or a parasitic genus (Entamoeba) found in higher animals and humans.
Webster's New World
Something indefinite in shape or perpetually changing, like an amoeba.
Webster's New World
Any of various one-celled free-living or parasitic protozoans having no definite form and moving by means of pseudopods.
American Heritage Medicine

(biology) A genus of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.

Wiktionary

(mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.

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Noun

Singular:
amoeba
Plural:
amoebae, amoebas

Origin of Amoeba

  • New Latin Amoeba genus name from Greek amoibē change from ameibein to change mei-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibē, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

    From Wiktionary

Amoeba Sentence Examples

  • The game starts out with a simple single-celled organism, not unlike an amoeba.

  • The child's self-portrait appears as an amoeba person, but it will usually be the biggest figure, appearing in the center of the page.

  • The child will also start drawing people that resemble a tadpole or amoeba (a circle with arms and legs, and sometimes eyes).

  • Some bacteria, such as those of anthrax, are seized upon in the same manner, indeed; very much as small algae and other particles are incorporated and devoured by amoeba.

  • Whether it's the laughter from shouting "Amoeba!" or the in-depth character knowledge gained from "Three Things," team building games for kids can bring kids together in ways that last their entire lives.

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