Definitions
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- adjective Of or resembling an amoeba, especially in changeability of form and means of locomotion.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
ameboid . - noun Single‐celled organism that moves or feeds by means of temporary projections, called
pseudopods . They are taxonomically classified in a sub‐phylum calledSarcodina .
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- adjective like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape)
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Examples
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Now if the student will compare Section 35, he will see that in the white blood corpuscles we have a very remarkable resemblance to the amoeba; the contractile vacuole is absent, but we have the protoplasmic body, the nucleus and nucleolus, and those creeping fluctuations of shape through the thrusting out and withdrawal of pseudopodia, which constitute "amoeboid" motion.
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In the developing mammalian brain, for example, neurons migrate up into the cranium, using much the same kind of amoeboid movement that our deep ancestor employed to capture bacteria.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Why, you have no use for them anyway, you obviously spontaneously generate amongst you single celled, amoeboid pieces of sh it in the GOP.
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As the amoeboid conglomeration expanded, so did its square feet, rising up 1515 Broadway's glassy facade with every successive purchase.
Mogul Request Live 2010
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As the amoeboid conglomeration expanded, so did its square feet, rising up 1515 Broadway's glassy facade with every successive purchase.
Mogul Request Live 2010
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It shouldn't, but we have to respect the fact that we work in universities with department names, and attempts to make an amoeboid department that covers all of science probably don't tend to work very well.
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Those in the stalk will die; only the spores will go on to form the next amoeboid generation.
The Selfless Gene 2007
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Those in the stalk will die; only the spores will go on to form the next amoeboid generation.
The Selfless Gene 2007
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Those in the stalk will die; only the spores will go on to form the next amoeboid generation.
The Selfless Gene 2007
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One way to start: draw an arbitrary shape (like an amoeba silhouette) and then ask yourself: could this*particular* shape be blessed, by some inherent logic, with a special non-predicate status like “exist”, and yet other shapes (like a somewhat different amoeboid outline, or triangles, etc.) not be?
Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007
chained_bear commented on the word amoeboid
"There is often water in the raft these days. My legs push the rubber floor into the sea until I'm about mid-thigh deep.... When I lose my balance, I fall into the black, clutchy amoeboid, and it's quite a battle to keep from being totally engulfed."
--Steven Callahan, Adrift, 198–199
May 15, 2008