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Noun: Myxomycetes
  1. The class of true slime moulds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota
    - class Myxomycetes
Noun: myxomycete  ,mik-sow-mI'seet or ,mik-sow'mI,seet
  1. A slime mould of the class Myxomycetes
    - true slime mold [N. Amer], acellular slime mold [US], plasmodial slime mold [N. Amer], true slime mould [Brit, Cdn], acellular slime mould [Brit, Cdn], plasmodial slime mould [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: class, slime mold [N. Amer], slime mould [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: division Gymnomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, Myxomycota

Encyclopedia: Myxomycetes

Myxomycete