oomycote

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Noun

oomycote (plural oomycotes)

  1. Any of a group of filamentous protists variously classified as the phylum Oomycota or the class Oomyctes in a more broadly circumscribed phylum.
    Synonyms: water mould, water mold
    • 2007, M.P. Weinstein, Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, page 163:
      Marine oomycotes are eukaryotic mycelial decomposers that have swimming, biflagellate propagules and lie in the Kingdom Chromista (or Protoctista), phylum Oomycota.

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