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Parasite found in contents of Samos kebab (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

amoeba

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'parasite' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both animals as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'contents of samos kebab' is the wordplay.
'contents of' says to take the centre (the letters on the inside of the word).
'kebab' becomes 'eba' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The central letters of 'samos' are 'amo'.
'amo'+'eba'='AMOEBA'

'found in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for amoeba that I've seen before include "Simple creature" , "parasitic type" , "Microscopic life form" , "Protozoon" , "Unicellular form" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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