sb. pl. Zool. [mod.L., f. AMORPHO- + Gr. ζῷα animals.] A collective appellation given by Blainville to those Protozoa, such as sponges, and their allies, which have no regular form.
1857. Page, Advd. Text-bk. Geol. (1876), 341. The amorphozoa or spongiform bodies, which seem to have crowded the waters.