myxamoeba
American Heritage Dictionary:
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myx·a·moe·ba
also myx·a·me·ba (mĭk'sə-mē'bə) 
n., pl., -bas, also -bas, also -bae, or -bae (-bē).
A slime mold at a stage when it is an amoebalike free-swimming cell and before it fuses to form a plasmodium.
n., pl., -bas, also -bas, also -bae, or -bae (-bē).
A slime mold at a stage when it is an amoebalike free-swimming cell and before it fuses to form a plasmodium.
Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:
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myxamoeba
or (esp. US) myxameba
a free-living haploid amoeboid cell occurring in the life cycles of the cellular slime moulds and the myxomycetes. In the former they aggregate to form a slug and in the latter a plasmodium.
a free-living haploid amoeboid cell occurring in the life cycles of the cellular slime moulds and the myxomycetes. In the former they aggregate to form a slug and in the latter a plasmodium.
| myt5, myrosinase, myristyl | |
| myxedema, myxo+, myxobacteria |
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