mucous - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Adjective
mucous (comparative more mucous, superlative most mucous)
- Pertaining to mucus.
- ✤ Synonym: mucal
- ✤ Coordinate terms: mucoid, myxoid
- Having the qualities of mucus; resembling mucus.
- ✤ Synonyms: mucal, mucoid, myxoid
Etymology
Naturalized from Late Latin mūcōsus, from Latin mūcus. By surface analysis, muc(us) + -ous = muco- + -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmjuːkəs/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- Rhymes: -uːkəs
- Hyphenation: mu‧cous
- Homophone: mucus
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