Citations:Protamœbæ

Noun: optional form of

 * 1869, Ernst Häckel, in Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, John Churchill and Sons; Volume IX, page #221:
 * In some Protamœbæ the sarcode mass of the body is entirely clear and hyaline ; in others, again, it is obscured by a larger or smaller quantity of colourless dark oleaginously shining granules, insoluble in acetic acid.

Noun: plural of protamœba

 * 1873, C. R. Bree, in Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute; Volume VII, page #254:
 * Professor Häckel and Dr. Bastian believe that such specks of protoplasm, in the form of protistæ and protamœbæ arc constantly being evolved in myriads in the fine mud of our ponds and ditches.
 * 1878, The Pharmaceutical Journal, J. & A. Churchill; Volume VIII, page #277:
 * In the lowest and crudest forms we first meet with little lumps of contractile slime—monera, protamœbæ—without structure, without any definite form, and entirely without and hard or formed parts.