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Myxomycetes

Definition: Myxomycetes

Myxomycetes

Noun

1. The class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota.

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Etymology: Myxomycetes \Myx`o*my*ce"tes\, plural noun. [NL.; Greek mucus, slime myceles.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Myxomycetes

DomainDefinition

Health

A division of organisms that exist vegetatively as complex mobile plasmodia, reproduce by means of spores, and have complex life cycles. They are now classed as protozoa but formerly were considered fungi. (references)

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Synonym: Myxomycetes

Synonym: class Myxomycetes (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Myxomycetes

English words defined with "Myxomycetes": acellular slime molddivision Gymnomycota, division MyxomycotaGymnomycotamyxomycete, Myxomycotaplasmodial slime moldtrue slime mold. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Myxomycetes" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (myxomycetes).

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Commercial Usage: Myxomycetes

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Books

  • A Guide to Temperate Myxomycetes (reference)

  • Catâalogo comentado y sâintesis corolâogica de los Myxomycetes de la Penâinsula Ibâerica e Islas Baleares (1788-1990) (reference)

  • Myxomycetes (reference)

  • Myxomycetes (Flora Neotropica Monograph: No 16) (reference)

  • Myxomycetes of Ohio: Their Systematics, Biology, and Use in Teaching (Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series, Vol 13, No 2) (reference)

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Music

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Expression: Myxomycetes

Expression using "Myxomycetes": class Myxomycetes. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Myxomycetes

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

myxomycetes

12
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Modern Translation: Myxomycetes

Language Translations for "Myxomycetes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

limasienet. (various references)

   

French

  

myxomycètes. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μυξομÏκητες. (various references)

   

Italian

  

misomiceti. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yxomycetesmay

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Ancestral Language Translations: Myxomycetes

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Myxomycetes. (various references)

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Rhyming with "Myxomycetes"

Words rhyming with "Myxomycetes" (pronounced 'Myx`o*my*ce"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Ecclesiastes, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Hymenomycetes, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Myxomycetes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-m-m-o-s-t-x-y-y"

-1 letter: myxomycete.

-2 letters: myxocytes.

-3 letters: myxocyte.

-5 letters: comets, comtes, coyest, cymose, emmets, emotes, exsect, oxeyes, stemmy.

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Alternative Orthography: Myxomycetes


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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