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One-celled creatures
Answer for the clue "One-celled creatures ", 7 letters:
amoebae
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion [syn: ameba ] [also: amoebae (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amoeba \A*moe"ba\, Amoeba \A*m[oe]"ba\, n.; pl. L. Am[oe]b[ae] ; E. Am[oe]bas . [NL., fr. Gr. ? change.] (Zo["o]l.) A rhizopod common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. Same as ameba . See Rhizopoda . [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of amoebae.
As a matter of fact, my body has no definite shapeyou would think of one of your amoebae if you were to see me.
Creatures from single-celled amoebae, spiders, insects, birds and mammals all build homes or shelters for themselves, often of extremely complex design.
Their movements are rather slow, and resemble those of Amoebae or of the white corpuscles of the blood.
The Martian volcanoes were visible now in starlight, masses of clouds creeping up their long slopes like pale-gray amoebae.
Algae, amoebae, plants, animals—they're all made up of nearly identical cells.
There were structures like clouds, and creatures like the soft-plastic toys, shaped like amoebae or jellyfish, that children play with.
Hassan, I believe the creatures in there are creatures of mathematics - swimming in a Godelian pool of logic, growing, splitting off from one another like amoebae as they absorb undecidable postulates.