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Ameba   Listen
noun
ameba  n.  
1.
Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. Same as amoeba.





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"Ameba" Quotes from Famous Books



... rootlets, our amebic ancestors, and the craving for more freedom is manifest in the soul of even the lowest, buried in darkness and slime. When the first clever bit of colloidal ooze, protoplasm as the ameba, protruded a bit of itself as a pseudopod, it achieved a new freedom. For, accidentally or deliberately, it created for itself a new power—the ability to go directly for food in its environment, instead of waiting, patiently, passively, as the plant does, for ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.


Words linked to "Ameba" :   order Amoebida, endameba, amebous, Amoebida, order Amoebina, ameban, amoeba, rhizopodan, rhizopod, Amoebina, amebic


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