a. Biol. [f. AMŒBA + -OID.] Of the character of the Amœba; Amœba-like.
1861. J. Greene, Cœlent., 52. Such amœboid particles occasionally become detached.
1872. Huxley, Phys., vii. 157. The amœboid movements of the white corpuscles of the blood.
1878. M‘Nab, Bot., 16. The protoplasm escapes forming uniciliate zoospores which soon lose the cilia and become amœboid.
