What is "ameboid"

Usage examples of "ameboid".

When the shape burst free, the membrane scabbed off and the fluid flowed out like an ameboid thing trying to restrain the shape.

A few hundred ameboid vigilantes did start after him in old-fashioned, normal-drive ships, but after a month or so of long and fatiguing interstellar travel at one-hundredth his speed, they gave up and returned home.

A brilliant, imaginative ameboid criminal at large on a planet as volatile culturally as Earth!

Even his endoplasm lost the turgidity of the healthy ameboid and became dangerously thin and transparent.

Alps, mountaineers are said to use the ameboid configurations of elongated ant nests as pointers to the south.

Leaden daylight, passing through the panes, speckled the room with the watery-gray shadows of the hundreds of beads that tracked down the glass, and Sam was so edgy that he could almost feel those small ameboid phantoms crawling over him.

Again and again, they had to let themselves collapse back into an ameboid shape, victims of some omitted or malfunctioning organ, but each failure smoothed the road.

I thought about dragging her off the ameboid mattress and hauling her away from this literally damned man before she was forced to pay a price as great as he had paid.