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Amoeba Pronunciation
Amoeba is pronounced uh-MEE-buh, IPA /əˈmibə/.
uh-MEE-buh
US /əˈmibə/ · UK /əˈmiːbə/
Syllables: uh · MEE · buh (3 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: A single-celled organism that moves and feeds by pushing out lobes of its own body.
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Amoeba in a Sentence
- Under the lens the amoeba crept across the slide.
- An amoeba divides by splitting in two.
- The committee has the shape of an amoeba and twice the drift.
Common Mispronunciations of Amoeba
Not uh-MOY-buh
Reading those two letters as the oy of boy invents a sound English never gave them. They stand for one stretched ee and nothing more.
Not A-mee-buh
MEE holds the volume, with a faint uh ahead of it. The plural amoebae and the adjective amoebic keep the beat in the same place.
Tip: Ameba is the simplified American spelling of the same creature, and it is said no differently.
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