mucor in i

pl. [Mod. Lat. mucor (q. v.); Lat. masc. pl. adj. suff. -ini.] Bot.: A sub-order of Physomycetous Fungals. Mycelium filamentous, forming flocks or clouds in or on decaying animal and vegetable substances, spore-bearing vesicles rupturing so as to discharge their spores. Allied to Mucedines, but in the latter sub-order the spores are free. IMG:content-1469.png:[blocks in formation] mu-coŭs, mū-cose, a. [Lat. mucosus, from mucus (q. v.); Fr. muqueux ; Sp. mucoso , mocoso .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Of or pertaining to mucus; resembling mucus; slimy, ropy, viscid. "It hath in the tongue a mucous and slimy extremity." -Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. xxi. 2. Secreting mucus; as, the mucous membrane. II. Bot .: Covered with a slimy secretion or with a coat that is readily soluble in water and becomes slimy, as the fruit of Salvia verbenaca. (Lindley.) mucous-corpuscles, s. pl. Anat .: Very transparent corpuscles with a cell wall, a nucleus, and a number of minute moving molecules, in the mucous liquid of the mouth. ( Griffith & Henfrey.) mucous-membranes, s. pl. Anat .: Membranes consisting of prolongations of the skin, having their surface coated over and protected by mucus. Their chief divisions are the gastro-pneumonic and genito-urinary mucous membranes, the former covering the inside of the ali mentary canal, the air-pa ages, .; the latter the inside of the bladder and the urinary pa age. ( Quain .) mucous-ti ue, s. Anat.: The jelly-like connective ti ue containing mucus. ( Quain.)