mucoid
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmjuːkɔɪd/
mucoid (not comparable)
- Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. [from 19th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- The virgin is released from the mucoid swamp by a water-nymph from under “the glassy cool, translucent wave,” an Apollonian realm of purity, clarity, and vision.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
mucoid (plural mucoids)
- Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
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