muciferous

1. 1.

   containing or secreting mucus

Questions about muciferous

What does muciferous mean?

muciferous means "containing or secreting mucus".

How many syllables are in muciferous?

muciferous has 4 syllables and divides as mu-ci-fe-rous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is muciferous a common word?

muciferous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.