mucoid

1. 1.

   any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin

   Broaderglycoprotein

1. 1.

   relating to or resembling mucus

   “a mucoid substance”

   Synonymsmucoidal

Other forms of mucoid

plural

mucoids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mucoid

What does mucoid mean?

mucoid means "any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mucoid?

mucoid has 2 syllables: mu-coid. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mucoid?

Close synonyms include mucoidal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mucoid a common word?

mucoid 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.