AMOEBINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Amoebina mean? 

• AMOEBINA (noun)
  The noun AMOEBINA has 1 sense:

1. the animal order including amoebas

  Familiarity information: AMOEBINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMOEBINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The animal order including amoebas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Amoebida; Amoebina; order Amoebida; order Amoebina

Hypernyms ("Amoebina" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Amoebina"):

genus Amoeba (protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water)

Endamoebidae; family Endamoebidae (a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract)

ameba; amoeba (naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion)

Holonyms ("Amoebina" is a member of...):

Rhizopoda; subclass Rhizopoda (creeping protozoans: amoebas and foraminifers)