MYXOMYCETES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myxomycetes mean? 

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

1. the class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYXOMYCETES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Myxomycetes; Myxomycetes

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Myxomycetes"):

acellular slime mold; myxomycete; plasmodial slime mold; true slime mold (a slime mold of the class Myxomycetes)

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

division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota (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)