slime ball

English

Noun

slime ball (plural slime balls)

1. Alternative form of slimeball
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2003, Shelagh Lynne Supeene, chapter 10, in My Name is Mitch, Victoria, B.C., Custer, Wash.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 67:

     He is like a shape shifter. Great guy one minute, slime ball the next. Only in his case the change is permanent.