amoeba

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"It's not fungi, it's not a plant, it's not animal. It's more closely related to an amoeba," Barry explains.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

In fact, they immediately set themselves on the task of pleasing Carol and those like her, along with solving the riddle of their immunity, so they can absorb the stragglers into their joy amoeba.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

It was decades after decades of trying to contain something as organic as music, like forcing an amoeba to hold a shape.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

Within hours, a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell, replicating viral genetic material outside the nucleus and assembling hundreds of new virus particles.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

All four of them walked through the empty basement and up the stairs in a clump, almost like a single creature—an amoeba, maybe.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix