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The pulsating blobs of Texas-backyard mystery are plasmodia — multinucleate masses that course the forest until conditions are just right for them to form the colorful fruiting bodies full of spores.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020

Neither plant nor animal, these single-cell amoebas feed on bacteria but aggregate when their food source becomes scarce to form glossy, bulbous, shape-shifting multicellular plasmodia that develop fruiting bodies.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2015

It acts by destroying the asexual forms of all kinds of plasmodia in the human blood stream�the forms which produce the shivering, sweating and fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

First the plasmodia enter the oxygen-bearing red blood cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

This organism is remarkable in one or two ways: it possesses a contractile vacuole; the amoeboid trophozoites tend to form plasmodia; and the spores, of the usual simple type, may apparently divide by binary fission.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various