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mucoid🔊

Having the qualities of mucus; resembling mucus.

📑 Synonyms: myxoid
💬 Quotations
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.

Pertaining to, containing, or being mucus.

📑 Synonyms: myxoid mucous mucal

Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.