Slime
81slime bacteria — noun bacteria that form colonies in self produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste • Syn: ↑myxobacteria, ↑myxobacterium, ↑myxobacter, ↑gliding bacteria • Hypernyms: ↑eubacteria, ↑eubacterium, ↑ …
82slime body — noun : one of the discrete bodies of variable form, number, and distinctness that occur in a developing sieve tube element, fuse prior to disintegration of the nucleus and form a viscous mass in the vacuole of the element, and are demonstrable… …
83slime disease — noun or slime sickness : any of several bacterial diseases of plants marked by slimy rot; especially : a destructive disease of tobacco caused by a bacterium (Pseudomonas solanacearum) and usually contracted in the seedbed …
84slime plug — noun : one of the funnel shaped masses on each side of a sieve plate formed by aggregation of slime bodies (as in an injured sieve tube element) …
85slime spot — noun : a colored or translucent spot in paper caused by a lump of slime in the stock that has been crushed in calendering …
86slime thickening — noun : the thickening of an ore slime by the removal of clear water …
87slime sickness — noun see slime disease …
88slime — The viscous extracellular glycoproteins or glycolipids produced by staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria that allows them to adhere to smooth surfaces such as prosthetic medical devices and catheters. More generally, the term often… …
89slime — Synonyms and related words: carrion, clay, corruption, dandruff, decay, excrement, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, glop, gumbo, gunk, mess, mire, muck, mucus, mud, obscenity, ooze, ordure, pus, putrid matter, rot, scum, scurf, scuz, slab,… …
90slime — Смотри Шлам …
