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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various one-celled aquatic or parasitic protozoans of the genus Amoeba or related genera, having no definite form and consisting of a mass of protoplasm containing one or more nuclei surrounded by a flexible outer membrane. It moves by means of pseudopods.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biology A genus of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
  2. n. mathematics The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A rhizopod common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. Same as ameba. See rhizopoda.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibē, "change"), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms. (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin, genus name, from Greek amoibē, change, from ameibein, to change. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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