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cavosteliid

cavosteliid noun: any slime mold of the family Cavosteliidae.

cavosteliid: any slime mold of the family Cavosteliidae
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Noun

cavosteliid (plural cavosteliids)

  1. Any slime mold of the family Cavosteliidae.
    • Only five of these eight lineages belong to the Eumycetozoa. These are the protosporangiids, protosteliids, soliformoviids, cavosteliids, and schizoplasmodiids (Shadwick et al., 2009).2017, Dmitry V. Leontyev, Martin Schnittler, Chapter 3: The Phylogeny of Myxomycetes, Carlos Rojas, Steven L. Stephenson, Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology, Elsevier...

Forms of cavosteliid

pluralcavosteliids

Origin of cavosteliid

From translingual Cavosteliidae (family name).

Questions about cavosteliid

What does cavosteliid mean?
Cavosteliid means any slime mold of the family Cavosteliidae.
What part of speech is cavosteliid?
Cavosteliid is a noun.
What is the plural of cavosteliid?
The plural of cavosteliid is cavosteliids.

Words near cavosteliid in the dictionary

  1. cavortin
  2. cavorting
  3. cavortingly
  4. cavortings
  5. cavorts
  6. cavosteliid
  7. cavosteliids
  8. cavosurface
  9. cavosurfaces
  10. cavotricuspid
  11. Cavourian

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