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Webster 1913 Edition

Myxophyta

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Myx-oph′y-ta

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Noun.

pl.

[NL.; Gr. [GREEK] mucus, slime + [GREEK] plant.]

(Bot.)

A phylum of the vegetable kingdom consisting of the class

Myxomycetes

. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.