A*me"bi*form (#), A*me"boid (#), a. [Ameba + -form or -oid.] Biol.

Resembling an ameba; ameba-shaped; changing in shape like an ameba.

Ameboid movement, movement produced, as in the ameba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

 

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