Definition of Genus Amoeba

1. Noun. Protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water.

Generic synonyms: Protoctist Genus
Group relationships: Amoebida, Amoebina, Order Amoebida, Order Amoebina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Amoeba

genus Amaryllis
genus Amauropelta
genus Amazona
genus Amberboa
genus Ambloplites
genus Amblyrhynchus
genus Ambrosia
genus Ambystoma
genus Ameiurus
genus Amelanchier
genus Amia
genus Amianthum
genus Ammobium
genus Ammodytes
genus Ammotragus
genus Amoeba (current term)
genus Amorpha
genus Amorphophallus
genus Amphibolips
genus Amphicarpa
genus Amphicarpaea
genus Amphioxus
genus Amphiprion
genus Amphisbaena
genus Amphisbaenia
genus Amphiuma
genus Amsinckia
genus Amsonia
genus Amygdalus
genus Anabas

Literary usage of Genus Amoeba

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"... the spleen take on a kind of independent motion, analogous to that exhibited in low protozoon animal organisms, belonging to the so-palled genus Amoeba. ..."

2. Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and (1913)
"The views expressed in the preceding paragraphs may be summarized in the statement that the old genus Amoeba should be broker up into allied genera as ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1898)
"... as extensions of the body protoplasm was erroneous, and that they were mycelial filaments nf a fungus parasitic upon the genus Amoeba. ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"Some of the species not secreting shells (as in the genus Amoeba) have been seen to extemporize a mouth and stomach. When a particle of food touches the ..."

5. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1888)
"genus Amoeba. PRACTICAL WORK AND SUMMARY. A. Observe: i. That the body consists of—(a) A central mass of granular protoplasm ..."

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