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mucilloid

mucilloid noun: a substance prepared from mucilage.

Noun

mucilloid (countable and uncountable, plural mucilloids)

  1. A substance prepared from mucilage.
    • METAMUCIL® is the highly refined mucilloid of Plantago ovata (50%), a seed of the psyllium group, combined with dextrose (50%) as a dispersing agent.1951 March, “You Can Assure… adequate water, bulk, dispersion with METAMUCIL [advertisement]”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association...
    • Feeding psyllium mucilloid may promote colonic healing in horses with RDUC.2008, Bradford P. Smith, Large Animal Internal Medicine, page 757

Forms of mucilloid

pluralmucilloids

Origin of mucilloid

From mucil(age) + -oid.

Questions about mucilloid

What does mucilloid mean?
Mucilloid means a substance prepared from mucilage.
What part of speech is mucilloid?
Mucilloid is a noun.
What is the plural of mucilloid?
The plural of mucilloid is mucilloids.

Words near mucilloid in the dictionary

  1. mucilage
  2. mucilages
  3. mucilaginous
  4. mucilaginously
  5. mucilaginousness
  6. mucilloid
  7. mucilloids
  8. mucin
  9. mucinase
  10. mucinases
  11. mucine

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