{ A‐mœ″bi‐form (�), A‐mœ″boid (�), } a. [Amœba + -form or -oid.] (Biol.) Resembling an amœba; amœba-shaped; changing in shape like an amœba.
Amœboid movement, movement produced, as in the amœba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.