Definitions for mucor

mucor mu·cor

Spelling: [myoo-ker]
IPA: /ˈmyu kər/

Mucor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in mucor (cmoru).

Definitions for mucor

noun

  1. any phycomycetous fungus of the genus Mucor, that forms a furry coating on foodstuffs and dead and decaying vegetable matter.

Origin of mucor

1650-60; New Latin, Latin: moldiness, equivalent to mūc(ēre) to be moldy or musty + -or -or1

Examples for mucor

Other moulds are sometimes met with, parasitic upon the larger species of mucor.

The mucilage surrounding endospores of mucor, conidia of Empusa, &c., serves to gum the spore to animals.

The mash is then cooled down somewhat, diluted with sterilized water and innoculated with the mucor filaments.

In diphtheria I developed the bacteria to the full form--the mucor malignans.

The Aspergillus and the Penicillium differ from the mucor in having their spores naked and not enclosed in a spore-case.

Another very common and beautiful mould, Aspergillus glaucus (2, Fig. 22), often grows with mucor on the top of jam.

They were covered with mould, consisting chiefly of a species of mucor, and one also of Botrytis or Botryosporium.

Species of mucor, Botrytis, and other fungi, may also be met with.

Word Value for mucor
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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