Slim-disease
noun
1.
a form of AIDS common in Africa, marked by emaciation and fever.
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- Slime
noun 1. thin, glutinous mud. 2. any ropy or viscous liquid matter, especially of a foul kind. 3. a viscous secretion of animal or vegetable origin. 4. Also called slimeball [slahym-bawl] /ˈslaɪmˌbɔl/ (Show IPA). Slang. a repulsive or despicable person. verb (used with object), slimed, sliming. 5. to cover or smear with or as if […]
- Slime-bacteria
plural noun 1. gliding bacteria.
- Slimeball
noun 1. thin, glutinous mud. 2. any ropy or viscous liquid matter, especially of a foul kind. 3. a viscous secretion of animal or vegetable origin. 4. Also called slimeball [slahym-bawl] /ˈslaɪmˌbɔl/ (Show IPA). Slang. a repulsive or despicable person. verb (used with object), slimed, sliming. 5. to cover or smear with or as if […]
- Slime-mold
noun 1. any of various funguslike organisms belonging to the phylum Myxomycota, of the kingdom Protista (or the plant class Myxomycetes), characterized by a noncellular, multinucleate, creeping somatic phase and a propagative phase in which fruiting bodies are produced bearing spores that are covered by cell walls. 2. any of several similar organisms of the […]
- Slime mould
noun 1. any of various simple spore-producing organisms typically found as slimy masses on rotting vegetation, where they engulf food particles by amoeboid movements. Formerly regarded as fungi, they are now classified as protoctists of the phyla Myxomycota (true, or cellular slime moulds) or Acrasiomycota (plasmodial slime moulds)