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ameba

ameba \ameba\ n. 1. 1 naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion. Same as amoeba.

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ameba

n. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of amoeba English)

WordNet
ameba
  1. n. naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion [syn: amoeba]

  2. [also: amebae (pl)]

Wikipedia
Ameba (website)

is a popular Japanese blogging and social networking website.

In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with Twitter. In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a Facebook app for the English market based on the virtual community Ameba Pigg.

Usage examples of "ameba".

To an ameba, this was easily the most exciting photograph in the collection.

Always just in a gap in some bushes, or in a field, where she absorbs me like an ameba, all kiss-smell, and thighs, and lips blow-drying the sweat on my skin.

The brown sphere was spotted after some days by a prowling ameba, quiescent in the eternal winter of the bottom.

They have the same power of changing their shape, of surrounding and swallowing scraps of food, as has the ameba, and are a combination of scavengers and sanitary police.

It was as if the sky were covered with a thick cloud bank which absorbed the monstrous radiation of a sun now four times its previous diameter and madly changing shape like a monstrous ameba of flame.

Suddenly, another ameba, different from those attacking Gygyo, swam leisurely into the field.

But that meant that, like the common ameba, this fascinating organism was immortal, barring accidents.

Malaria and amebae also destroyed red cells, by digesting them as food.

Throughout the galaxy—in the depths of the oceans, in grimy caves, in palaces and prisons, in starships and starbases—every form of life from Melkotians to amebas experienced one shining moment of peace.