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ameba

[uh-mee-buh] / əˈmi bə /


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City officials said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the ameba in water samples from the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad on Friday.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2021

People are infected when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose, usually when people go swimming or diving in lakes and rivers.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2021

Partially inflated at the Roswell, N.M., launch site, it looks like an ameba dressed in haute couture.

From Slate Mar. 26, 2014

His difficulty is plain: Dodsworth, no simple ameba, reacts to stimulae of the shifting European scene not automatically but thoughtfully, individually.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cells are better off than the ameba, for their food is brought to them.

From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton

For the white cells, which move about like amebae, are the body's shock troops; they gobble up invading bacteria, produce antidotes which neutralize their toxins.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most people do not think of microscopic bacteria as plants, any more than they think of amebae, clams and sponges as "animals."

From Time Magazine Archive

It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates.

From Time Magazine Archive

These cells are like little amebas in the blood.

From Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton

A streak of terrible light was striking at them from the Interplanetarian, blinding white light, and along that highway of light swarmed a horde of little green figures, like squirming green amebas.

From Empire by Clifford D. Simak

With a grunt of amazement, Greg slammed a beam straight into the heart of the amebas.

From Empire by Clifford D. Simak




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