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DIVISION MYXOMYCOTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("division Myxomycota" is a kind of...):
division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)
Meronyms (members of "division 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 ("division Myxomycota" is a member of...):
Fungi; fungus kingdom; kingdom Fungi (the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants)