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Definition of Amoeba

1. Noun. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.

Definition of Amoeba

1. Noun. (biology) A genus of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers. ¹

3. Noun. (rare spelling of amoeba) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amoeba

1. a unicellular microscopic organism [n -BAS or -BAE] : AMOEBAN, AMOEBIC, AMOEBOID [adj]

Medical Definition of Amoeba

1. Genus of protozoa, but also an imprecise name given to several types of free living unicellular phagocytic organism. Giant forms (e.g. Amoeba proteus) may be up to 2mm long and crawl over surfaces by protruding pseudopods (amoeboid movement). Amoebae exhibit great plasticity of form and conspicuous cytoplasmic streaming. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (22 Feb 2008)

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