Dictionary.com
definitions
  • synonyms

myxomycete

[mik-soh-mahy-seet, -mahy-seet]
See more synonyms for myxomycete on Thesaurus.com
noun
  1. an organism of the phylum Myxomycota (or, in some classifications, the class Myxomycetes), comprising the slime molds.
Show More

Origin of myxomycete

1875–80; < New Latin Myxomycetes; see myxo-, -mycete
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for myxomycete

Historical Examples

  • No myxomycete has hyph, nor indeed anything at all of the kind.

    The North American Slime-Moulds

    Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

  • This peculiar species looks at first very little like a myxomycete.

    The North American Slime-Moulds

    Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

  • He does not regard them as genuine asci, but as corresponding more to the peridium of the Gasteromycete and Myxomycete.

British Dictionary definitions for myxomycete

myxomycete

noun
  1. a slime mould, esp a slime mould of the phylum Myxomycota (division Myxomycetes in traditional classifications)
Show More
Derived Formsmyxomycetous, adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
myxomycete in Science

myxomycete

[mĭk′sō-mī′sēt]
  1. A plasmodial slime mold. See under slime mold.
Show More
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.