myxomycete
/ˌmɪksə(ʊ)ˈmʌɪsiːt
/noun Biology
A slime mould, especially an acellular one whose vegetative stage is a multinucleate plasmodium.
- Division Myxomycota, kingdom Fungi, in particular the class Myxomycetes; also treated as protozoan (phylum Gymnomyxa, kingdom Protista).
- These observations corroborate results of the cognate introns in the myxomycetes Didymium and Physarum, where no in vitro splicing products were detected.
- A survey of myxomycetes was conducted at three sites within Cedars of Lebanon State Park, Wilson County, Tennessee from May 1 to September 30, 1993.
Origin
Late 19th century: from modern Latin Myxomycetes, from myxo- 'slime' + Greek mukētes 'fungi'.
- protozoologist
- protozoology
- protozoon
- protozoölogy
- protract
- protracted
- protractedly
- protracted meeting
- protractedness
- protractible
- protractile
- protractility
- protraction
- protractive
- protractor
- protractor muscle
- protreptic
- protreptical
- protriaene
- protrichocyst
- protriptyline
- protropin
- protruberance
- protrudable
- protrude