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Webster 1913 Edition

Amoeboid

{

A-mœ′bi-form

,

A-mœ′boid

, }

Adj.

[

Amœba

+

-form

or

-oid

.]

(Biol.)

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

Amœboid movement

,

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