Definitions for ameba

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ameba a·me·ba

Spelling: [uh-mee-buh]

IPA: /əˈmi bə/

Ameba is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in ameba (aabem).

Definitions for ameba

noun

1. any of numerous freshwater, marine, or parasitic one-celled protozoa of the order Amoebida, characterized by a granular nucleus surrounded by a jellylike mass of cytoplasm that forms temporary extensions, or pseudopodia, by which the organism moves, engulfs food particles, and forms food vacuoles.
2. a protozoan of the genus Amoeba, inhabiting bottom vegetation of freshwater ponds and streams: used widely in laboratory studies.

Origin of ameba

New Latin amoeba Greek amoibḗ change, alternation, akin to ameíbein to exchange

Examples for ameba

It corresponds most closely to the encystment of certain protozoa—the ameba for example.

The "jiner" is an ameba that clings to flotsam, instead of floating free in the great ocean of life.

Some are simple like the ameba, others are very complex in structure.

The whiplike processes with which certain cells, as the ameba, are provided.

Lsch ascribed tropical dysentery to an ameba, named by him Amba coli, in 1875.

The ameba solves this difficulty by dividing to form two amebæ.

The cells are like the tiny animal, the ameba, and can take in the food by any part of their bodies.

Those are some dried specimens of ameba that I wish to study under a microscope.

The cells are better off than the ameba, for their food is brought to them.

Yet, is man any less a unit than the ameba, or any other simple organism?