Amoebaeum \Am`[oe]*b[ae]"um\, n. [L. am[oe]baeus, Gr. ?,
alternate; L. amoebaeum carmen, Gr. ? ?, a responsive song,
fr. ? change.]
A poem in which persons are represented at speaking
alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
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