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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ameba

▶noun (pl. amebae or amebas) US spelling of amoeba.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
amoeba /əˈmiːbə/ (US also ameba)

▶noun (pl. amoebas or amoebae /-biː/) a single-celled animal which catches food and moves about by extending finger-like projections of protoplasm. [Phylum Rhizopoda.]

– derivatives
amoebic adjective,
amoeboid adjective.

– origin C19: mod. L., from Gk amoibē ‘change, alternation’.

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