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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

a•cra•sin n. [Mycol.]

Fungia chemotactic substance, identical with cAMP, secreted by myxamebas of cellular slime molds and attracting other myxamebas to aggregate and form a pseudoplasmodium.

Greek; see a-⁶, crasis) + -ales -ales) + -in²
Neo-Latin Acras(iales) an order of cellular slime molds (Acras(is) a genus, so named from the lack of fusion between the cells (
1945–50

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