Crossword clues for amoebae
amoebae
- Microscopic creatures
- Unicellular swimmers
- They're often under the microscope
- They multiply with division
- Slide organisms
- Slide creatures
- Shape-shifting creatures
- Protean ones
- Ones moving with the aid of pseudopods
- One-celled swimmers
- Movers on a slide
- Microscopic shape-shifters
- Living blobs
- Frequent "Far Side" figures
- Biology lab topics
- Bio 101 studies
- Amorphous creatures
- Microscope slide subjects
- Pseudopod formers
- They haven't any definite forms
- Shape shifters?
- Little blobs on slides
- Sights on slides
- Low life forms
- One-celled animals
- Protozoans
- One-celled creatures
- Minute animals
- Low life?
- One-celled organisms
- Tiny dividers
- Tiny shape-shifters
- They're often seen on slides
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] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classical plural of amoeba; see -ae.
Wiktionary
n. (en-irregular plural of: amoeba)
WordNet
See amoeba
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.