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means A slime mold — a primitive organism that spends part of its life as a creeping, amoeba-like blob and part as a spore-releasing fungus-like structure.

from Built from Greek parts: 'myxa' meaning mucus or slime, plus 'mykes' meaning fungus — the same root that gives us 'mycology' and 'mushroom.' Scientists bolted the two together because these organisms stubbornly refused to be one thing or the other: slimy like an amoeba, spore-bearing like a fungus. The name is basically a shrug formalized into Greek — 'the slimy fungus-thing' — coined once biologists realized they needed a word for an organism that breaks the rules of its own kingdom.