From slime + ball; sense 1 (“a round lump made up of or coated with slime or a slime-likesubstance”) is a , from Schleim + Kugel, while sense 1.1 (“a mucus-coated lump containing the cercariae of a liver fluke”) may be a (from Schleim + Ball).
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