CELLULAR SLIME MOLD

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Meaning:

Differing from true slime molds in being cellular and nucleate throughout the life cycle

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cellular slime mold" is a kind of...):

slime mold; slime mould (a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellular slime mold"):

dictostylium (any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium)

Holonyms ("cellular slime mold" is a member of...):

Acrasiomycetes; class Acrasiomycetes (cellular slime molds; in some classifications placed in kingdom Protoctista)

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