AMOEBA Synonyms

• any small compartment

• (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

• a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

• a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

• small room in which a monk or nun lives

• a room where a prisoner is kept

• any organism of microscopic size

• a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

• a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body

• free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes

• of or relating to the Protozoa

• any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

• any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

• having or consisting of a single cell

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