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amoeba

/uh-mee-buh/US // əˈmi bə //UK // (əˈmiːbə) //

阿米巴原虫,阿米巴人,阿米巴虫,变形虫

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural a·moe·bas, a·moe·bae [uh-mee-bee]. /əˈmi bi/.

    • : a variant of ameba.

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Examples

  • Elsewhere in the world, such as Karachi, the capital city of Pakistan, he says, the presence of the “brain eating amoeba” in the water supply seems to be much larger.

  • Mercifully, human invasion is rare, for the invader, an amoeba, destroys the brain tissue and produces death in from four to seven days.

  • This free-living amoeba, Naegleria gruberi, is not confined to tropical countries….

  • An amoeba called Naegleria fowleri causes disease in people by eating brain cells.

  • To pull themselves along, amoebas extend temporary bulges from their cells.

  • Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on the alienlike amoeba that gives him nightmares.

  • I was invited to see Paul when he performed at a very intimate gig at Amoeba Records in L.A. a few years ago.

  • A mono-cell, the amoeba, was able to reproduce itself by the simple stratagem of sub-division.

  • And I have good reason to believe that the forces of Aptor are congealing once more, a sluggish but huge amoeba of horror.

  • But the right-hand side you will see an undoubted amoeba, moving sluggishly across the field.

  • I expect you'll have to wait till little brother amoeba gets grown up before you'll find a reader.

  • It continued to move outward, and on the map it appeared like a pseudopod extruded by an enormous amoeba.