ameba

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (7)  · 
A Diaspora living across frontiers is like an ameba, forever fragmenting and disintegrating with an array of colonels and no commander.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun Variant of amoeba.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (21)

  • Download videos from ameba anime-eden animeepisodes aol beedeo bestyz blip bolt break broadbandsports broadcaster castpost clipcast clipjunki cliplife clipro collegehumor comedycentral currenttv dailymotion dancevidz danerd daum devilducky dumpalink ebaum —  Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo
  • This suggests the ameba membrane may have receptors, sensitive to these bacterial substances, which are different from the mannose receptors involved in binding bacteria to the membrane during phagocytosis. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Surely if it is fact then there should be other evolved individuals show up in the world who have risen from an ameba, or slime, or a big bang or wherever people have supposedly evolved from.
  • A Diaspora living across frontiers is like an ameba, forever fragmenting and disintegrating with an array of colonels and no commander. —  Asian Tribune
  • Amebatosis ... is caused by the ameba, a microscopic plant ... and having this will surely make you appear to have alzheimer's desease. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
 

Tags

ameba hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 60 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

books · kike · dormer · loyal · electrophoresis

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda · settii