slime mold
English
Noun
slime mold (countable and uncountable, plural slime molds)
- Any of various primitive organisms, a naked mass or protoplasm in diverse taxonomic classifications:
- protists of the Amoebozoa
- syncytial or plasmodial slime molds in subclass Myxogastria (syn. Myxomycetes)
- cellular slime molds in order Dictyosteliida
- in order Protostelida.
- protists of the order Acrasida
- Parasitic rhizarian chromists of the order Plasmodiophorida
- The slime nets, of the class Labyrinthulea of chromists
- Cellular slime molds of the genus Fonticula, in a sister group of the Fungi.
- protists of the Amoebozoa
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