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Definition of: ameba
(ə·mē′bə) noun plural ·bas or ·bae (-bē)
Any of various naked protozoans of the genus Amoeba and other genera in the order Amoebidae, typically of indefinite shape, moving and feeding by the action of pseudopodia, and reproducing by fission. Also amoeba. [<NL <Gk. amoibē change]
—a·me′bic adjective
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