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muco-

muco- prefix: mucus.

Prefix

muco-

  1. mucus.
    Synonyms:
    blenno-, myx-, myxo-

Synonyms of muco-

Origin of muco-

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from mucus; more at mucus § Etymology.

Questions about muco-

What does muco- mean?
Muco- means mucus.
What part of speech is muco-?
Muco- is a prefix.

Words near muco- in the dictionary

  1. mucky-mucks
  2. mucky-pup
  3. mucky-pups
  4. mucluc
  5. muclucs
  6. muco-
  7. muco-series
  8. mucoactive
  9. mucoadherent
  10. mucoadhesion
  11. mucoadhesive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muco- (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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