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mucinous

mucinous adjective: of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins.

Adjective

mucinous (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins.
    • mucinous carcinoid
    • in mucinous carcinoma of the breast, the cancer cells express various mucins

Origin of mucinous

From mucin + -ous.

Words formed from mucinous

Questions about mucinous

What does mucinous mean?
Mucinous means of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins.
What part of speech is mucinous?
Mucinous is an adjective.

Words near mucinous in the dictionary

  1. mucinoids
  2. mucinolysis
  3. mucinolytic
  4. mucinoses
  5. mucinosis
  6. mucinous
  7. mucins
  8. muciparous
  9. mucivore
  10. mucivores
  11. mucivorous

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