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Mucor
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Mu′cor
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Noun.
[L., fr.
mucere
to be moldy or musty.] (Bot.)
A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
Definition 2025
Mucor
Mucor
See also: mucor
Translingual
Proper noun
Mucor m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Mucoraceae.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Eomycota - subkingdom; Zygomycota - phylum; Mucoromycotina - subphylum; Mucorales - order; Mucoraceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Mucor mucedo - type species; for the numerous other species see Mucor at MycoBank.
mucor
mucor
See also: Mucor
Latin
Noun
mūcor m (genitive mūcōris); third declension
Declension
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
| genitive | mūcōris | mūcōrum |
| dative | mūcōrī | mūcōribus |
| accusative | mūcōrem | mūcōrēs |
| ablative | mūcōre | mūcōribus |
| vocative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
Descendants
- Aromanian: mucoari
- English: mucor
- French: mucor
- Romanian: mucoare
- Spanish: mugor
- Translingual: Mucor
References
- mucor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mucor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.