MYXOMYCETES
\mˈa͡ɪksəmˌa͡ɪsiːts], \mˈaɪksəmˌaɪsiːts], \m_ˈaɪ_k_s_ə_m_ˌaɪ_s_iː_t_s]\
Definitions of MYXOMYCETES
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota
By Princeton University
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the class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food.
By Oddity Software
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A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food.
By Noah Webster.
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A division of organisms that exist vegetatively as complex mobile plasmodia, reproduce by means of spores, and have complex life cycles. They are now classed as protozoa but formerly were considered fungi.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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mik-s[=o]-m[=i]-s[=e]'t[=e]z, n.pl. a class of very simple organisms, often claimed by botanists as fungi, generally regarded by zoologists as primitive Protozoa, living on damp surfaces exposed to air, esp. on rotting wood, and feeding on organic débris forming composite masses or plasmodia. [Gr. myxa, mucus, myk[=e]tes, pl. of myk[=e]s, a mushroom.]
By Thomas Davidson
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The slime molds, by De Bary placed among the Mycetozoa, but now usually regarded as an order of the Fungi. They are distinguished by forming in their first stages mobile masses with small scattered nuclei and protoplasm showing a streaming movement. As they proceed toward maturity they lose their gelatinous structure, and become a mass of spores mingles with threads. When the spores germinate, the contents escape either in the form of ameboid bodies or zoospores with cilia, which come together and produce mobile plasodia. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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