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Slime Mold

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Noun

1. slime mold, slime mould

a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slime Mold

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myxomycete

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slime Mold

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n.
1. Any of various eukaryotic organisms of the class Dictyostelia that exist as free-living amoeboid cells in the soil and under certain conditions aggregate into a mass that develops into a stalked sporangium. Also called cellular slime mold.
2. Any of various eukaryotic organisms of the class Myxogastria (formerly Myxomycetes) that develop from amoeboid cells into a large multinucleate plasmodium that produces stalked sporangia. Also called myxomycete, plasmodial slime mold.

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