amoebean

amoebean
am·oe·be·an or am·oe·bae·an (ăm'ə-bēʹən) adj.
Answering alternately in prosody.
  [From Late Latin amoebaeus, from Greek amoibaios, from amoibē, change. See amoeba.]

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