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Definition of Genus Amoeba
1. Noun. Protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water.
Group relationships: Amoebida, Amoebina, Order Amoebida, Order Amoebina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amoeba
Literary usage of Genus Amoeba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"... the spleen take on a kind of independent motion, analogous to that exhibited
in low protozoon animal organisms, belonging to the so-palled genus Amoeba. ..."
2. Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and (1913)
"The views expressed in the preceding paragraphs may be summarized in the statement
that the old genus Amoeba should be broker up into allied genera as ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1898)
"... as extensions of the body protoplasm was erroneous, and that they were mycelial
filaments nf a fungus parasitic upon the genus Amoeba. ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Some of the species not secreting shells (as in the genus Amoeba) have been seen
to extemporize a mouth and stomach. When a particle of food touches the ..."
5. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1888)
"genus Amoeba. PRACTICAL WORK AND SUMMARY. A. Observe: i. That the body consists
of—(a) A central mass of granular protoplasm ..."
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