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mucinogen

mucinogen is the alternative form of mucigen.

Meaning of mucigen

Noun

mucigen (countable and uncountable, plural mucigens)

  1. A granular substance formed in epithelial cells that, mixed with water, gives rise to mucin.
    Synonyms:
    mucinogen

Forms of mucinogen

pluralmucinogens

Questions about mucinogen

What is mucinogen the alternative form of?
Mucinogen is the alternative form of mucigen.

Words near mucinogen in the dictionary

  1. mucin
  2. mucinase
  3. mucinases
  4. mucine
  5. mucinlike
  6. mucinogen
  7. mucinogens
  8. mucinoid
  9. mucinoids
  10. mucinolysis
  11. mucinolytic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mucinogen (page history and authors); mucigen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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