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slime ball en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of slimeball.
He is like a shape shifter. Great guy one minute, slime ball the next. Only in his case the change is permanent.
2003, Shelagh Lynne Supeene, chapter 10, in My Name is Mitch, Victoria, B.C.; Custer, Wash.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 67:These flukes have three hosts. [...] As the infected snail crawls along it leaves slime balls containing cercaria on grass. An ant, Formica fusca, the arthropod host for D. dendriticum in the United States, is infected when it ingests the slime balls. Mammals are infected by consuming ants containing encysted metacercaria.
1995, A. M. Marty, E. M. Andersen, “Helminthology”, in Wilhelm Doerr, Gerhard Seifert, Erwin Uehlinger, editors, Tropical Pathology (Spezielle pathologische Anatomie, ein Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk [Special Pathological Anatomy: A Teaching and Reference Work]; 8), 2nd edition, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 827:
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