Definition of "amoebiform" []

• Alternative form of amebiform. (adjective)

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• "These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba."
• "We have already seen that the young egg-cell multiplies itself by simple binary division, after the manner of unicellular organisms in general -- thereby indicating, as also by its amoebiform movements, its fundamental identity with such organisms in kind."
• "For in their early stages of development within the ovary the ova of the highest animals are likewise in the condition of naked cells, exhibiting amoebiform movements; the enveloping membrane of an ovum being the product of a later development."