In slime moulds: a motile feeding cell lacking flagella but capable of amoeboid movement. Cf. myxoflagellate, n.

Physiology. A cell which has immigrated (immigrate, v. additions b).

Mycology and Microbiology. Originally: an encysted myxamoeba with a thick, protective cell wall. Later also: a small, encapsulated resting cell…

A cell having amœboid shape or properties; esp. a type of corpuscle in the cœlomic fluid of certain echinoderms, etc.

Physiology and Pathology. Of diseases, pains, etc.: Moving from one part of the body to another (without clearly ascertained cause). wandering cells…

an amœbiform body occurring in bead-like strings from the vesicles of foot-and-mouth disease.

a flagellated motile cell produced by the stalked cell of certain species of stalked bacteria.

One of a number that swarm; one of a swarm (as of insects); in Biology a swarm-spore; in Bacteriology, a swarmer cell.