acanthamoeba

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Noun

1. Any [[amoeba]] of the genus {{taxfmt|Acanthamoeba|genus}}, found chiefly in [[soil]]. {{defdate|First attested in the mid 20th century.}}<ref name=SOED>Brown, Lesley, ed. ''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.'' 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.</ref>

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