Definition of "amoebae" []

• Plural form of amoeba. (noun)

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• "The amoebae in the Unikont group are more closely related to animals than they are to other so-called amoebae in the other groups, such as ..."
• "Current molecular and morphological data support the hypothesis that eukaryotic diversity comprises five major supergroups: UNIKONTS, which include animals, the unicellular choanoflagellates, to which they are closely related, as well as fungi (mushrooms!) and a whole host of things called amoebae!"
• "Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."