Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Moldiness; mustiness.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of zygomycetous fungi, typical of the suborder Mucoreæ; the true molds.
- noun In medicine, mucus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Bot.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any mold of the genus Mucor
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Examples
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In mucor, again, they are very marked, the inflated filaments which, closely interwoven, present chains of cells, which fall off and bud, gradually producing a mass of cells.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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In mucor, again, they are very marked, the inflated filaments which, closely interwoven, present chains of cells, which fall off and bud, gradually producing a mass of cells.
I. The Physiological Theory Of Fermentation. On the Relations Existing Between Oxygen and Yeast 1909
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He has witnessed it in the case of mucor racemosus and has also verified it in the case of yeast.
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A number of the specimens collected were attacked by a parasitic mucor of the genus _Spinellus_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It is difficult to conceive how the seeds of this mucor can float so universally in the atmosphere as to fix itself on all putrid matter in all places.
Note I 1803
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Microscopic animals produced from all vegetable and animal infusions; generate others like themselves by solitary reproduction; not produced from eggs; conferva fontinalis; mucor.
Contents 1803
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Dr. Priestley, which is universally produced in stagnant water, and the mucor, or mouldiness, which is seen on the surface of all putrid vegetable and animal matter, have probably no parents, but
Note I 1803
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Mr. Ellis observed by his microscope near the surface of all putrefying vegetable or animal matter, which is the mucor or mouldiness; the vegetation of which was amazingly quick so as to be almost seen, and soon became so large as to be visible to the naked eye.
Note I 1803
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The small apparent quantity of matter that exists in the universe compared to that of spirit, and the short time in which the recrements of animal or vegetable bodies become again vivified in the forms of vegetable mucor or microscopic insects, seems to have given rise to another curious fable of antiquity.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Linneus enumerates but four diseases of plants; Erysyche, the white mucor or mould, with sessile tawny heads, with which the leaves are sprinkled, as is frequent on the hop, humulus, maple, acer, &c.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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