Word.ws English Dictionary

mucinoid

mucinoid adjective: resembling mucin. Also the alternative form of mucoid.

Adjective

mucinoid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling mucin.

Also used as

mucinoid is also the alternative form of mucoid.

Forms of mucinoid

pluralmucinoids

Origin of mucinoid

From mucin + -oid.

Questions about mucinoid

What does mucinoid mean?
Mucinoid means resembling mucin.
What part of speech is mucinoid?
Mucinoid is an adjective.

Words near mucinoid in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mucinoid (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mucinoid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mucinoid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.