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Meaning of cellular slime mould in English:

cellular slime mould

noun

(US cellular slime mold)
Biology

  • Any slime mould of the order Dictyosteliida, which may exist either as a single amoeboid cell or (typically when food supplies are exhausted) as an aggregate of cells (pseudoplasmodium).

Origin

1950s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science.