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Definition of Class myxomycetes
1. Noun. The class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota.
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Division Gymnomycota, Division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, Myxomycota
Member holonyms: Acellular Slime Mold, Myxomycete, Plasmodial Slime Mold, True Slime Mold
Literary usage of Class myxomycetes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms: A Guide to the Systematic Study of the Fungi by Lucien Marcus Underwood (1899)
"... best to regard the Mycetozoa as constituting a phylum or primary division of
the plant world. The phylum then will contain the single class Myxomycetes. ..."
2. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"I. class myxomycetes. THE SLIME MOULDS. 272.—In this class is included a large
group of remarkable organisms, which differ in many respects from all other ..."
3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1902)
"... is one of the most highly developed and specialized animals belonging to the
sub-kingdom Protozoa. IX. Slime Moulds. Class, Myxomycetes. ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"A very general outline of classification,* according to the former of ''Class
Myxomycetes, or Mycetozoa.—To this class belong the "slime molds," low ..."
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