amoebas
- plural of amoeba.
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Rather, these events appear to be common across diverse organisms, from single-celled amoebas to complex multicellular animals.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada are being warned against submerging themselves in the hot springs below the Hoover Dam due to the risk of infection by deadly brain-eating amoebas.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Although kelp behaves and looks like a plant, it’s a protist, the same group as single-cell amoebas.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
Although the ones they studied were infectious only to amoebas, the researchers said that there was a risk that other viruses trapped in the permafrost for millennia could spread to humans and other animals.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
Almost the moment my mom left, Otto and I came down with amoebas.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
