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    DIVISION MYXOMYCOTA

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     I. (noun) 

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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 Protoctistaplay

    Synonyms:

    division Gymnomycota; division Myxomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

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