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[syn: ameboid, amoeboid]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Amoebiform \A*m[oe]"bi*form\, Amoeboid \A*m[oe]"boid\, a.
[Am[oe]ba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.)
Resembling an am[oe]ba; am[oe]ba-shaped; changing in shape
like an am[oe]ba.
[1913 Webster]
Am[oe]boid movement, movement produced, as in the am[oe]ba,
by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
amoeboid
adj 1: like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular
shape) [syn: ameboid, amoeboid]