Usually means: Single-celled, shape-shifting, microscopic organism.
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  1. amoeba: Merriam-Webster
  2. amoeba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amoeba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Amoeba, amoeba: Wordnik
  7. amoeba: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amoeba: Wiktionary
  9. amoeba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amoeba: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  14. Amoeba (band), Amoeba (disambiguation), Amoeba (film), Amoeba (genus), Amoeba (mathematics), Amoeba (operating system), Amoeba (song), Amoeba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  21. amoeba: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  1. -amoeba: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amoeba)

▸ noun:  (biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
▸ noun:  (slang) An asexual.

Similar:
ameba, amœba, amoebocyte, amebula, amoebozoan, amoeboidism, amaebocyte, amoeboid, amoebaflagellate, amoebazoan, more...

Opposite:
non-amoeboid, non-amebic, non-ameboid

Types:
Acanthamoeba, Entamoeba, Hartmannella, Naegleria, Plasmodium, Dictyostelium, Physarum, Chaos, more...

Phrases:
Amoeba proteus, genus amoeba, amoeba (genus), Amoeba Music, Amoeba Gig, more...

Adjectives:
giant, celled, single, smallest, living, pathogenic, large, intestinal, parasitic, simplest, common

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ameba, amœba, amoebocyte, amebula, amoebozoan, amoeboidism, amaebocyte, amoeboid, amoebaflagellate, amoebazoan, more...

Opposite:
non-amoeboid, non-amebic, non-ameboid

Types:
Acanthamoeba, Entamoeba, Hartmannella, Naegleria, Plasmodium, Dictyostelium, Physarum, Chaos, more...

Phrases:
Amoeba proteus, genus amoeba, amoeba (genus), Amoeba Music, Amoeba Gig, Amoeba Culture, Rogue Amoeba, amoeba like, more...

Adjectives:
giant, celled, single, smallest, living, pathogenic, large, intestinal, parasitic, simplest, common

Colors:
    green,     pink,     purple,     blue,     yellow, more...



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