mucoid.

Resembling mucus in consistency or character.

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Words that belong together

• mucoid secretion

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A mucoid secretion covered the sample.

The fluid became mucoid.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Use more/most only for naturally gradable descriptive applications; technical classifications are normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.