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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mucor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mucor (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The property of being mucid.
1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. ”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. , volume IV, London: A Millar, , published 1744, →OCLC, page 120, column 2:This day I perceived one tulip in the compreſſed air to be infected vvith ſome mucor or ſinevv; but thoſe, vvhich remained in the common air, vvere all very mucid; and alſo one of the lark-ſpurs, in the common air, had contracted a mucor.
Anagrams
French
Noun
mucor m (plural mucors)
- any fungus of the genus Mucor
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From mūceō (“I am moldy”) + -or.
Pronunciation
Noun
mūcor m (genitive mūcōris); third declension
- bread-mold, moldiness
- wine-must
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “mucor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mucor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.