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Pronunciation: [ɐmˈiːbɔ͡ɪd] (IPA)

The word 'amoeboid' refers to the shape of an amoeba and is commonly used in biology. Synonyms for 'amoeboid' include 'ameboid', 'amebic', 'amoebal', and 'amoebiform'. These words can be used interchangeably to describe objects that have an irregular, blob-like shape, such as certain types of cells or microscopic organisms. Other synonyms for 'amoeboid' include 'shapeless', 'formless', and 'amorphous'. These words can be used to describe anything that lacks a distinct shape or structure. In general, synonyms for 'amoeboid' focus on the idea of shapelessness or lack of structure, which can be applied to a wide variety of objects and concepts.
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The ripe spore of the Myxomycetes is globose or ellipsoidal in shape, with the epispore colorless or colored, and smooth or marked by characteristic surface-sculpture according to the species; the spore in germination gives rise to an elongated protoplasmic body, which exhibits amoeboid movements, and is known by the name of swarm-cell.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
Dr. Henry Carter is well known as an old and experienced worker amongst amoeboid forms of animal life, and, when in Bombay, he devoted himself to the examination of the Myxogastres in their early stage, and the result of his examinations has been a firm conviction that there is no relationship whatever between the Myxogastres and the lower forms of animal life.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
While the above-described introversion is taking place, and before the inner surfaces of the resulting epiblast and hypoblast have come into contact, cells, or amoeboid units equivalent to them, are budded off from one or both of these inner surfaces, or some part of one or other; and these form a layer which eventually lies between the other two-a layer which, as this mode of formation implies, never has any converse with the surrounding medium and its contents, or with the nutritive bodies taken in from it.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer

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  • I lay down and tried to sleep. When I closed my eyes I saw an Oriental face, the lips and nose eaten by disease. The disease spread, melting the face into an amoeboid mass in which the eyes floated, dull crustacean eyes. Slowly, a new face formed around the eyes. A series of faces, hieroglyphs, distorted and leading to the final place where the human road ends, where the human form can no longer contain the crustacean horror that has grown inside it.
    William S. Burroughs

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