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ameboid

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[uh-mee-boid] / əˈmi bɔɪd /
Or amoeboid

adjective

Biology.
  1. resembling or related to amebas.


Other Word Forms

  • ameboidism noun

Etymology

Origin of ameboid

ameb(a) + -oid

Example Sentences

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Or maybe you’ve posed in the hollow round of a giant, ameboid mitt at T-Mobile Park.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2021

If this occurs, the spores germinate to form ameboid or flagellate haploid cells that can combine with each other and produce a diploid zygotic slime mold to complete the life cycle.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

They embrace and enfold the pathogenic germs with which they come in contact by what is known as an ameboid force.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir

Whether the cell in an inflamed part is the white ameboid cell of the blood or the fixed connective tissue embedded in the fibers, it multiplies in the same way.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Leucocytes are defined to be “minute, nucleated, colorless masses of protoplasm, capable of ameboid movements, found swimming freely in blood and lymph, in the reticulum of lymphatic glands, and in bone-marrow and other connective tissue.”

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir