The magnificent masses of living matter to be found in certain mushrooms known as "Myxomycetes" are capable, like the white corpuscles, of enveloping foreign bodies and digesting them inside the vacuoles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilya Mechnikov - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Myxobacteriaceae suggests a relationship with the Myxomycetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

= Myxamœba =, to denote that it is an amœba-like form produced by one of the = Myxomycetes =.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

Myxomycetes Flickr set explores the non-linear dynamics of these gooey heterotrophs, revealing protean branching structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [dataisnature.com] Reference