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mycodermas

mycodermas is the plural of mycoderma.

Meaning of mycoderma

Noun (1)

mycoderma (plural mycodermata or mycodermas)

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) One of the forms in which microbes group themselves; a (microscopic or macroscopic) layer of motionless but living microbes united on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed, differing from the zoogloea stage by not having the intermediate mucous substance.
  2. (archaic, countable) A single microbe of (former) genus Mycoderma, as a denizen within a biofilm; a microscopic colony of such microbes, among many such colonies in a biofilm.
    • The sugar is first decomposed by the anærobiotic yeast plant, and the residues which it leaves behind are consumed in their turn by the ærobiotic mycodermata. There are many other ways in which the sugar can be resolved into carbonic dioxide and water, but everywhere there is the same mixture of...1890, Emma S. Merritt, “Report of Committee on Histology and Microscopy. The role of bacteria in fermentation and putrefaction”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California...

Noun (2)

mycoderma (plural mycodermata or mycodermas)

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Mucous membrane (mucosa).

Questions about mycodermas

What is mycodermas the plural of?
Mycodermas is the plural of mycoderma.

Words near mycodermas in the dictionary

  1. Mycocks
  2. mycoculture
  3. mycoderm
  4. mycoderma
  5. mycodermal
  6. mycodermas
  7. mycodermata
  8. mycodermic
  9. mycodermous
  10. mycoderms
  11. mycodextran

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