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Amoebic

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Adjective

1. ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous

pertaining to or resembling amoebae

Example Sentences:
'amoebic dysentery'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Amoebic

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noun plural -bae (-biː) or -bas
any protozoan of the phylum Rhizopoda, esp any of the genus Amoeba, able to change shape because of the movements of cell processes (pseudopodia). They live in fresh water or soil or as parasites in humans and animals

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Amoebic

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nounWord forms: plural aˈmoebas or aˈmoebae (əˈmibi ; əmēˈbē)
1. 
a one-celled, microscopic organism belonging to any of several families of rhizopods that move and feed using pseudopodia and reproduce by fission; esp., any of a genus (Amoeba) found in soil or water or a parasitic genus (Entamoeba) found in higher animals and humans
2. 
something indefinite in shape or perpetually changing, like an amoeba

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Amoebic

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n. pl. a·moe·bas or a·moe·bae (-bē) also a·me·bas or a·me·bae
Any of various one-celled free-living or parasitic protozoans having no definite form and moving by means of pseudopods.

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