ameba

1. 1.

   naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

   Synonymsamoeba

   Broaderrhizopod

   Narrowerendameba

   Part ofAmoebida

Other forms of ameba

plural

amebae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ameba

What does ameba mean?

ameba means "naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion".

How many syllables are in ameba?

ameba has 3 syllables: a-me-ba. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for ameba?

Close synonyms include amoeba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ameba a common word?

ameba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.