Definition of Muciferous

1. Adjective. Containing or secreting mucus.

Partainyms: Mucus

Medical Definition of Muciferous

1. Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin. Origin: Mucus + L. Parere to produce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muciferous

muchkin
muchkins
muchly
muchness
muchnesses
mucho
muchos gracias
muchwhat
muci-
mucic
mucic acid
mucicarmine
mucid
mucidities
mucidity
muciferous (current term)
mucific
muciform
mucigen
mucigenous
mucigens
mucihematein
mucilage
mucilages
mucilaginous
mucilaginous gland
mucilaginously
mucilaginousness
mucin

Literary usage of Muciferous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1846)
"The first or muciferous system consists of the long slender mucous tubes (fig. 45. M), which, commencing by groups of globular vesicles (ib. m. ..."

2. On the Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals: With Special by John Lubbock (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole series of ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"The bones of the skull are thin and frail, with the system of the muciferous channels moderately developed. There are five crests on the upper surface of ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole series of ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole ..."

6. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"The principal frontal bones are rather narrow and elongate, anteriorly transformed into a muciferous channel, each with a small slit between the orbits ..."

7. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1846)
"The first or muciferous system consists of the long slender mucous tubes (fig. 45. M), which, commencing by groups of globular vesicles (ib. m. ..."

8. On the Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals: With Special by John Lubbock (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole series of ..."

9. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"The bones of the skull are thin and frail, with the system of the muciferous channels moderately developed. There are five crests on the upper surface of ..."

10. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole series of ..."

11. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"Among the structures of which the use is still quite uncertain are the muciferous canals of fishes. The skin of fishes, indeed, contains a whole ..."

12. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"The principal frontal bones are rather narrow and elongate, anteriorly transformed into a muciferous channel, each with a small slit between the orbits ..."

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