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Definition of Slime mold
1. Noun. A naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists.
Specialized synonyms: Acellular Slime Mold, Myxomycete, Plasmodial Slime Mold, True Slime Mold, Cellular Slime Mold
Generic synonyms: Fungus
Definition of Slime mold
1. Noun. Any of various primitive organisms, a naked mass or protoplasm, of the phylum ''Acrasiomycota'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slime Mold
Literary usage of Slime mold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"One slime mold parasite causes the club root of beets living in the cells of the
swollen ... The slime-mold parasites of animals cause various diseases. ..."
2. Diseases of Truck Crops and Their Control by Jacob Joseph Taubenhaus (1918)
"slime mold Caused by Fuligo violacea Pers. and Physarum ... The growth, which is
a slime mold, has been determined as Fuligo violacea Pers. (fig. 25 a). ..."
3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... is for a time very sensitive to light, in the case of the slime mold of tan,
... of the plas- it in solution, and within the body medium of a slime mold ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"cases, to produce a new slime-mold in all respects comparable to its polymorphic
ancestry, a new motile organism ready once more to break up into spores and ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"6 illustrates the fruit of another slime-mold which, during the present year,
has been extremely common in this vicinity. Abundant rains during the summer ..."
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