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Word: Amoeba
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek amoibē ‘change, alternation’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
əˈmiːbə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm. Amoebas are either free-living in damp environments or parasitic.
Short Definition:single-celled animal
Variant Forms:
- ameba
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