Definition of "amoeboid" [amoeboid]

• Of or resembling an amoeba, especially in changeability of form and means of locomotion. (adjective)

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• "Now if the student will compare Section 35, he will see that in the white blood corpuscles we have a very remarkable resemblance to the amoeba; the contractile vacuole is absent, but we have the protoplasmic body, the nucleus and nucleolus, and those creeping fluctuations of shape through the thrusting out and withdrawal of pseudopodia, which constitute "amoeboid" motion."
• "In the developing mammalian brain, for example, neurons migrate up into the cranium, using much the same kind of amoeboid movement that our deep ancestor employed to capture bacteria."
• "Why, you have no use for them anyway, you obviously spontaneously generate amongst you single celled, amoeboid pieces of sh it in the GOP."