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A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.

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.

Like an amoeba in structure.

ted mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

n order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.

Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.

Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an amoeba.

A changeable protozoan; an amoeba.