Sentence examples for a slime from inspiring English sources

There is a slime mold known as Physarum polycephalum that lives in forests around the world.

A slime mold is what scientists refer to as a single-celled amoeboid organism.

It turned out to be a carnivorous fungus called a slime mould.

In a simple experiment, a slime mold population was required to cross a bridge in order to reach food.

Now these once glorious and vivid animals are suffering the ignominy of a slime green coating after their death.

Many bacterial cells secrete some extracellular material in the form of a capsule or a slime layer.

Sincerely, Madame Save-a-Slime-Ball.

Will the entire election become a "slime-off"?

Bacterial biofilms are complex multicellular bacterial communities protected by a slime-like extracellular matrix that confers protection to environmental stress and enhances resistance to antibiotics and host defenses.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.10811.001 Communities of bacterial cells can live together embedded within a slime-like molecular matrix as a biofilm.

Microorganisms can adhere to the surface of the endotracheal tube and some species exude an exopolysaccharide that acts as a slime-like adhesive.