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GENUS AMOEBA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Amoeba mean?
• GENUS AMOEBA (noun)
The noun GENUS AMOEBA has 1 sense:
1. protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water
Familiarity information: GENUS AMOEBA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Amoeba" is a kind of...):
protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)
Holonyms ("genus Amoeba" is a member of...):
Amoebida; Amoebina; order Amoebida; order Amoebina (the animal order including amoebas)
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