any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)
Examples of 'slime mould' in a sentence
slime mould
Amid all the revulsion, prepare to be knocked sideways by the beauty and intelligence of slime mould.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The film is at its best when it avoids the annual series' staple fare, as it does with its riveting time-lapse study of slime mould.