ameba

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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 flood of dazzling light reaching out from the Interplanetarian snapped off and the little green ameba things were gone.

From Empire by Simak, Clifford D.