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‖ mucor|ˈmjuːkɔː(r)|
[L. mūcor, f. mūcēre to be mouldy.]
†1. Mouldiness, mustiness; mould.
1656Blount Glossogr., Mucor, hoariness, filthiness. 1847–54in Webster; and in later Dicts.
2. Bot. The name of a genus of fungi, originally including all the mould-plants, but now somewhat narrowed. Hence, a plant of this genus or of the order Mucorini, of which Mucor is the type.
[1769Ellis in Phil. Trans. LIX. 139 note, This species of Mucor sends forth a mass of transparent filamentous roots.] 1818Colebrooke Import. Colonial Corn 96 Mouldiness is prevented, since the seeds of mucor are shut out. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 244/1 There are plants that are born and die in a day, such as the race of mucors. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 505 Some species of mucor are able to act as true alcoholic ferments.
attrib.1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. v. (1877) 40 A crop of erect aërial mucor-hyphæ. 1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 266 The so-called Mucor-yeast.
Hence mucoˈraceous, ˈmucorine, -ˈrinious, -ˈrinous adjs., belonging to the order Mucorini (also called Mucoraceæ) of fungi; muˈcorioid a. [see -oid], resembling a mucor.
1862Cooke Brit. Fungi 103 Mucoraceous Fungi. 1865Berkeley in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., Bot. VIII. 141 Threads which seemed to give rise to the Mucorioid fruit. 1866Treas. Bot. 761/2 Mucor, the typical genus of the mucorinous Moulds. 1874Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sci. XIV. 66 A Mucorinious fungus. 1880Cunningham ibid. XX. 56 Reproductive bodies occurring in mucorine fungi. |