Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mucoid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mucoid \Mu"coid\, a. [Mucus + -oid.]
Resembling mucus. --Dunglison.
{Mucoid degeneration}, a form of degeneration in which the
tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance
resembling mucus. --Quain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
muckrake \muck"rake`\, in the above sense, and the noun
muckraker \muck"rak`er\, to designate one so engaged, were
speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original
allusion was to a character in Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's
Progress'' so intent on raking up muck that he could not see
a celestial crown held above him. Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin
+ -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)
One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on
decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form
of proteid matter.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mucoid
adj : relating to or resembling mucus; "a mucoid substance" [syn:
{mucoidal}]
n : any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin
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