amœboid

Etymology
From, reflecting New Latin :.

Adjective

 * 1) * 1900,, An American text-book of physiology, page #48:
 * Perhaps the most striking property of the leucocytes as a class in their power of making amœboid movements—a characteristic which has gained for them the sobriquet of “ wandering ” cells.
 * Perhaps the most striking property of the leucocytes as a class in their power of making amœboid movements—a characteristic which has gained for them the sobriquet of “ wandering ” cells.