Amoeboid

Word AMOEBOID
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Definitions and meanings of "Amoeboid"

What do we mean by amoeboid?

Of or resembling an amoeba, especially in changeability of form and means of locomotion. adjective

Alternative spelling of ameboid. adjective

Single‐celled organism that moves or feeds by means of temporary projections, called pseudopods. They are taxonomically classified in a sub‐phylum called Sarcodina. noun

Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) adjective

Resembling, or characteristic of an amoeba

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The word "amoeboid" in example sentences

Now if the student will compare Section 35, he will see that in the white blood corpuscles we have a very remarkable resemblance to the amoeba; the contractile vacuole is absent, but we have the protoplasmic body, the nucleus and nucleolus, and those creeping fluctuations of shape through the thrusting out and withdrawal of pseudopodia, which constitute "amoeboid" motion. ❋ Unknown (1906)

In the developing mammalian brain, for example, neurons migrate up into the cranium, using much the same kind of amoeboid movement that our deep ancestor employed to capture bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why, you have no use for them anyway, you obviously spontaneously generate amongst you single celled, amoeboid pieces of sh it in the GOP. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the amoeboid conglomeration expanded, so did its square feet, rising up 1515 Broadway's glassy facade with every successive purchase. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It shouldn't, but we have to respect the fact that we work in universities with department names, and attempts to make an amoeboid department that covers all of science probably don't tend to work very well. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Those in the stalk will die; only the spores will go on to form the next amoeboid generation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One way to start: draw an arbitrary shape (like an amoeba silhouette) and then ask yourself: could this*particular* shape be blessed, by some inherent logic, with a special non-predicate status like “exist”, and yet other shapes (like a somewhat different amoeboid outline, or triangles, etc.) not be? ❋ Sean (2007)

Monarchic states were amoeboid entities, which shrank, expanded or coalesced according to the relative military and political skills of particular rulers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Brandt was especially struck by a tiny amoeboid, epistominella exigua, that seems to thrive at depths below 6000 metres as well as in much shallower waters, showing "a previously unsuspected ability to adapt to a wide range of pressures". ❋ Unknown (2007)

The raw data is inspiring enough, but Koblin makes it look like the U.S. is juggling 19,000 brightly colored balls, or scintillating with pyrotechnic tracers, or in the pièce de résistance, spawning molten globules of amoeboid protoplasm. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The towns and the crops and the roads, all the other forms of disruption, may encircle that amoeboid outline without crossing it. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

But as the rented car swept toward the vast, amoeboid office complex that was our destination, his faith slowly crumbled. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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