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Definition of Slime mould

1. Noun. A naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists.

Definition of Slime mould

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of slime mold) ¹

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Medical Definition of Slime mould

1. Two distinct groups of fungi, the cellular slime moulds or Acrasidae that include Dictyostelium and the acellular slime moulds or Myxomycetes that include Physarum. These nonphototrophic eukaryotic microorganisms lack cell walls, which aggregate to form fruiting structures (cellular slime moulds) or simply masses of protoplasm (acellular slime moulds). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slime Mould

Literary usage of Slime mould

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal by Chas. W. Smiley (1899)
"The plasmodium is the vegetative phase of the Slime-mould. ... In the Slime- mould the assumption of walls is indeed delayed, but merely delayed. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1906)
"A GRASS-KILLING slime mould. BY JOHN W. HARSHBERGER, PH. ... This slime mould which produces true sporangia within the dead tissues of the host differs from ..."

3. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"You will often find this plasmodial stage of the slime mould on the under side of rotting limbs or bits of wood in the forest as a sticky mass resembling in ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1904)
"... claimed that the galls were due to a slime mould. ... a slime mould allied to the genus Plasmodiophora. ..."

5. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"Myxomycete or slime mould. I, a bit of plasmodium. 2, a small plasmodium. 3, a spore. 4 and 5, protoplast escaping from the spore. ..."

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