Amoeboid is an English word. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Amoeboid in a sentence
Amoeboid meaning
Resembling or characteristic of an amoeba, particularly in having amoeboid movement.
Synonyms of Amoeboid
Using Amoeboid
- The main meaning on this page is: Resembling or characteristic of an amoeba, particularly in having amoeboid movement.
- Useful related words include: ameboid, rhizopod, rhizopodan.
Context around Amoeboid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Amoeboid
- In this selection, "amoeboid" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cells, typical, freshwater, motion, movement and form stand out and add context to how "amoeboid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a freshwater amoeboid which has and members with amoeboid stages. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "amoeboid" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with amoeboid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In eukaryotic unicellular cells, amoeboid movement and cilium or the eukaryotic flagellum are the main effectors (e. (17 words)
The male cells then become amoeboid and crawl across, or sometimes both cells crawl into the tube. (17 words)
Paulinella chromatophora is a freshwater amoeboid which has recently (evolutionarily speaking) taken on a cyanobacterium as an endosymbiont. (18 words)
Moving, the cell stretches out and takes a more typical amoeboid form, with an obvious distinction between the clear periphery and pseudopods and the greenish interior. (26 words)
The advantages of an amoeboid multiplicity of shapes thus allowed a previously present basal lamina and a gelatinous extracellular matrix to be lost secondarily. (24 words)
Hydra may also move by amoeboid motion of their bases or by simply detaching from the substrate and floating away in the current. (23 words)
Example sentences (7)
Hydra may also move by amoeboid motion of their bases or by simply detaching from the substrate and floating away in the current.
In eukaryotic unicellular cells, amoeboid movement and cilium or the eukaryotic flagellum are the main effectors (e.
Moving, the cell stretches out and takes a more typical amoeboid form, with an obvious distinction between the clear periphery and pseudopods and the greenish interior.
Paulinella chromatophora is a freshwater amoeboid which has recently (evolutionarily speaking) taken on a cyanobacterium as an endosymbiont.
The advantages of an amoeboid multiplicity of shapes thus allowed a previously present basal lamina and a gelatinous extracellular matrix to be lost secondarily.
The entire group is usually called the Heterolobosea, but this may be restricted to members with amoeboid stages.
The male cells then become amoeboid and crawl across, or sometimes both cells crawl into the tube.