mucose

1. 1.

   of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus

   “mucous tissue”

   “mucous glands of the intestine”

   Synonymsmucous

Other forms of mucose

comparative

mucoser·

superlative

mucosest·

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 mucose

What does mucose mean?

mucose means "of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus".

How many syllables are in mucose?

mucose has 2 syllables: mu-cose. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mucose?

Close synonyms include mucous. 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 mucose a common word?

mucose 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.