slime mould

English

Noun

slime mould (plural slime moulds)

1. Alternative spelling of slime mold.
   • 2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, page 453:

     Slime moulds on Earth were a common research subject. Scientists had studied them for centuries because of their self-organizing capability, that enabled a loose mass of individual cells to act as a macro-organism, a predator even, all without any neurology whatsoever.