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Senior officer I covered with dirt-like slimy stuff
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mucoid
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Word definitions for mucoid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or resembling mucus; "a mucoid substance" [syn: mucoidal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to mucus; mucoidal. n. Any of a class of mucin-like substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
Usage examples of mucoid.
The doctors and nurses on the screen wore spotless white, had coiffed hair, perfect faces, and teeth that radiated a mucoid sparkle as they conversed in slow, low, earnest tones about love, hate, anguish and death.
His last breath was a long mucoid gurgle smelling strongly of almonds.
The CT scan had shown only the mucoid cyst in the right maxillary sinus--probably a result of chronic allergies.
The tank proteome, a mucoid slime of nutrients and tailored hormones, was beginning to prepare his body for the life he left behind.
The white paintings were unknowable to many, knife-applied slabs of mucoid color.
The rat boy, a tiny, ragged lad of about ten years old, his dirty face and mucoid nose not having felt the touch of soap for a year or more, had prepared a bag of thirty-five large sewer rats to earlier instructions.
Heavy, rasping, mucoid breaths that made her want to slam the phone down.