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MYXOMYCOTA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Myxomycota mean?

• MYXOMYCOTA (noun)
The noun MYXOMYCOTA has 1 sense:

1. slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista

Familiarity information: MYXOMYCOTA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MYXOMYCOTA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota

Hypernyms ("Myxomycota" is a kind of...):

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Meronyms (members of "Myxomycota"):

class Myxomycetes; Myxomycetes (the class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota)

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

Holonyms ("Myxomycota" is a member of...):

Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom of lower plants)

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