slime mould

English

Noun

slime mould (plural slime moulds)

  1. Alternative spelling of slime mold.
    • 2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, page 453:
      Slime moulds on Earth were a common research subject. Scientists had studied them for centuries because of their self-organizing capability, that enabled a loose mass of individual cells to act as a macro-organism, a predator even, all without any neurology whatsoever.
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