(Biology)a slime mould, especially an acellular one whose vegetative stage is a multinucleate plasmodium (生)黏菌
Division Myxomycota, kingdom Fungi, in particular the class Myxomycetes; also treated as protozoan (phylum Gymnomyxa, kingdom Protista) 黏菌门,真菌界,尤指黏菌纲;亦被视为原生动物(裸黏菌虫门,原生生物界)
语源
late 19th cent.: from modern Latin Myxomycetes, from myxo- 'slime' + Greek mukētes 'fungi'