Dictionary entry

Amœbæum

Webster's Dictionary 1913

‖Am′œ‐bæ″um (�), n. [L. amœbaeus, Gr. �, alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. � �, a responsive song, fr. � change.] A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.