Crossword clues for amoeboid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amoebiform \A*m[oe]"bi*form\, Amoeboid \A*m[oe]"boid\, a. [Am[oe]ba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an am[oe]ba; am[oe]ba-shaped; changing in shape like an am[oe]ba.
Am[oe]boid movement, movement produced, as in the am[oe]ba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of ameboid English) n. Single‐celled organism that moves or feeds by means of temporary projections, called (l en pseudopods). They are taxonomically classified in a sub‐phylum called Sarcodina.
WordNet
adj. like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) [syn: ameboid]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "amoeboid".
Spot is a simple amoeboid monocellular creature, not as tough as a virus or even a bacterium.
They rolled up it, they were amoeboid, they were urchinlike, studded with bones they made limbs, they made themselves suddenly humanoid or like some unskinned and baying wildebeests, and they scrambled the height of the rise and paused at its top, then hurled down onto the screaming men, and Cutter saw what they did.
A few hundred amoeboid 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 amoeboid criminal at large on a planet as volatile culturally as Earth!
Even his endoplasm lost the turgidity of the healthy amoeboid and became dangerously thin and transparent.
Not only was he peddling the stuff to amoeboid minors, but they believed that he had taken the photographs himself and that the model had been his own brotheror should I say sister?
One day I used itin a story about the legalities of amoeboid pornography.
Yes, there was the lake, an amoeboid splotch of liquid silver almost in the center of the periscope screen, its mirrorlike surface broken by a spattering of black islets.
More formless than humanoid, it writhed forward like an amoeboid centaur.
It became marshmallowy, gradually closing around her, relentlessly engulfing her, as though it were a living, amoeboid creature.
I thought about dragging her off the amoeboid mattress and hauling her away from this literally damned man before she was forced to pay a price as great as he had paid.
As things now stood, the other could appear in public and perform the amoeboid equivalent of thumbing his nose at the Hunter without any risk to itself.
He moved toward it in a smooth, amoeboid flow, and a few moments later was among the books and papers that littered the table top.
She lay, amoeboid, sprawled on an ancient couch from which she obviously could not rise unaided, and except for the small, hidden motion of her jaw when she spoke and the constant darting of her eyes back and forth, back and forth, she was utterly motionless.
Jude was tearing through a small army of urban warriors, the amoeboid thing lairing beneath the Platinum Palace divided its vast pool of flesh into its separate human components again.