amoeba

Word family nounamoebiasisamoebaadjectiveamoebicamoebiformamoeboid

Related topics: Biology

a·moe·ba (also ameba American English) /əˈmiːbə/ noun [countableC]

HBa very small creature that has only one cell 变形虫，阿米巴〔极小的单细胞生物〕

—amoebic adjectiveadj

Examples from the Corpus

amoeba• Find an amoeba in a drop of pondwater on a microscope slide.• On the map it looks rather like an amoeba in the process of ingesting two small droplets of water.• He starts with a hypothetical amoeba, upon which the light of the primeval dawn falls.• Place a little acid on one side, and the amoeba will ooze away from the negative stimulus.• To counter this, water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba.• Others, including the amoeba, move by bulging out fingers from the main body and then flowing into them.• It is a simple program, sort of the amoeba of communications packages.• The amoeba is just as much an animal as the elephant.

Origin amoeba

(1800-1900) Modern Latin Greek amoibe “change”

词汇	amoeba
释义	amoeba Word family nounamoebiasisamoebaadjectiveamoebicamoebiformamoeboid Related topics: Biology a·moe·ba (also ameba American English) /əˈmiːbə/ noun [countableC] HBa very small creature that has only one cell 变形虫，阿米巴〔极小的单细胞生物〕 —amoebic adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus amoeba• Find an amoeba in a drop of pondwater on a microscope slide.• On the map it looks rather like an amoeba in the process of ingesting two small droplets of water.• He starts with a hypothetical amoeba, upon which the light of the primeval dawn falls.• Place a little acid on one side, and the amoeba will ooze away from the negative stimulus.• To counter this, water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba.• Others, including the amoeba, move by bulging out fingers from the main body and then flowing into them.• It is a simple program, sort of the amoeba of communications packages.• The amoeba is just as much an animal as the elephant. Origin amoeba (1800-1900) Modern Latin Greek amoibe “change”
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