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Amoeboid   Listen
adjective
Amoeboid, Amoebiform  adj.  (Biol.) Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba.
Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.






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... the same law of vital force governs in the appearance and geographical distribution of fungi, as universally obtains in the higher and more complex vegetal growths. And although it may be difficult, in some instances, to draw the precise line between certain low mycological forms and the amoeboid and some other primitive manifestations of animal life, yet all vegetable physiologists agree in assigning a purely vegetable origin to all the primary groups of fungi—their general cellular character determining their proper ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright



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