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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 myxo·my·ce·tous /-ˈsɪtəs/ 形容詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Myx·o·my·ce·tes n. pl.  Bot. A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta); essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota.  They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly  over the surface and ingest solid food. -- Myx*o*my*ce*tous a.
 Syn: -- true slime molds, acellular slime molds, plasmodial slime molds.
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