mucid
/ˈmjuːsɪd
/adjective rare
Mouldy, musty, or festering: a mucid sheet of green scum floated undisturbed over the goldfish pool...
- Here and there are mucid gray globs of something vaguely organic.
- The town was mucid and quaggy in the extreme.
- By midsummer, the water was mucid, pea-green, fermenting, almost bubbling with corruption.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin mucidus, from mucere 'be mouldy'.