ˌmiksəˌmīˈsēd.ēz noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Myx- + -mycetes
: a class of organisms of uncertain systematic position that are sometimes considered to be protozoans but are now usually regarded as plants and associated with the fungi or placed in a separate division, that exist vegetatively as complex mobile plasmodia, reproduce by means of spores which in almost all cases are borne in characteristic fruiting bodies, and have complex variable life cycles — see exosporeae , myxogastres ; mycetozoa , myxophyta ; slime mold
• myx·o·my·ce·tous | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷|sēd.əs sometimes mik|sämə|s- adjective