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Webster 1913 Edition

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Mucus

-oid

Resembling mucus.

Dunglison.

Mucoid degeneration

a form of degeneration in which the tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance resembling mucus.

Quain.

mucoid ‎(comparative more mucoid, superlative most mucoid)

Pertaining to or resembling mucus; mucous. [from 19th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
  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.

From muco- +‎ -oid, after German Mucoïd.

mucoid ‎(plural mucoids)

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