Noun
the class of true slime molds; essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota
Source: WordNetDe Bary studied the developmental history of Myxomycetes (slime molds), and thought it was necessary to reclassify the lower animals. Source: Internet
In his work on Myxomycetes (1858), he pointed out that at one stage of their life cycle (the plasmodial stage), they were little more than formless, motile masses of the substance that Félix Dujardin (1801–1860) had called sarcode ( protoplasm ). Source: Internet