Am'æ-bæ'um, n.

n. [Lat. amœbeus, Gr. ἀμοιβεύς, alternate; Lat. amœbæum carmen, Gr. ἄσμα ἀμοιβαῖον, a responsive song, from ἀμοιβή, change, alteration; ἀμείβειν, to change.] A poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately, as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil. Encyc. Brit.