单词 | myxomycetes |
释义 | Myxomycetesn. Biology. A taxon (now usually regarded as a class) comprising the majority of plasmodial slime moulds, i.e. those whose growth stage is a free-living, motile, multinucleate mass of protoplasm saprophytic on decaying wood and vegetation. With plural agreement (also myxomycetes): members of this taxon collectively.The term is sometimes loosely applied also to other slime moulds; cf. Mycetozoa n.For instances of the singular form see myxomycete n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > slime moulds > [noun] Myxogastres1838 Mycetozoa1860 Myxomycetes1860 myxomycete1877 slime-moulds1880 mycetozoan1881 mycetozoon1885 slime-fungi1897 1860 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5 241 Admitting therefore the Myxomycetes to be of an animal nature, and referable to the animal kingdom under the name of Mycetozoa, it yet remains questionable to what division of that kingdom they should be assigned. 1890 Bot. Gaz. 15 315 The sporangia of the mature Myxomycetes manifest a well marked tendency to variation of form, color and structure. 1918 Amer. Midland Naturalist 5 230 Some species of Myxomycetes, notably Physarum sinuosum, appear in lawns in formations like the so-called ‘fairy circles’ of some of the higher fungi. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxv. 472 The slime moulds, or Myxomycetes, are a group with characters almost as much animal as plant, consisting as they do for a significant part of their life of a mass of multi-nucleate protoplasm. 1994 Sci. News 10 Dec. 386/3 More than 175 species of myxomycetes—tiny slime molds notable for their cycle of beautiful changes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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