slime mold


slime mold

noun

Definition of SLIME MOLD

: any of a group (Myxomycetes or Mycetozoa) of organisms usually held to be lower fungi but sometimes considered protozoans that exist vegetatively as mobile plasmodia and reproduce by spores

First Known Use of SLIME MOLD

1880

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