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Usage examples of amoeba.

Thick white billows wrapped its long oval form like a paramecium engulfed by an amoeba.

It is said that as we are to the amoeba and the paramecium so are the Priest-Kings to us, that the highest and most lyric flights of our intellect are, when compared to the thought of the Priest-Kings, but the chemical tropisms of the unicellular organism.

There it is, a huge amoeba, afloat, semimobile, doing its own thing oblivious of me.

For whilst we might have difficulties defining precisely what is meant by learning, it is obvious that day-to-day life, for anything from amoebae to rose bushes and humans, involves experience, and that one definition of life itself must involve the capacity to adapt to experience by changing behaviour.

John Star, as they splashed through the shallows, waving a mocking farewell to the amoeba on the log.

Every chromosome, according to her, partakes of the same wild frenzy, whether amoeba of Nero.

An amoeba of brown, bubbly scab spread rapidly over the young lady and consumed her.

The amoeba outlives the tiger because it divides and continues in its immortal monotony.

Over the past fifteen years, he had lived through three plane crashes, an attack by a wounded lioness, bites from sharks and moray eels, scorpion stings and infestation by a succession of exotic parasites and amoebas that had caused, among other inconveniences, the temporary loss of all body hair and the sloughing of the skin from his tongue and penis.

As a matter of fact, my body has no definite shape—you 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.