slime mould

1. 1.

   a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists

   Synonymsslime mold

   Broaderfungus

   Narrowertrue slime moldcellular slime mold

Questions about slime mould

What does slime mould mean?

slime mould means "a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists".

What is another word for slime mould?

Close synonyms include slime mold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slime mould a common word?

slime mould is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.