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Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba.

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  1. a. Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba.
  2. adj. like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape)
  3. Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.
  4. a like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape)