mucigenous

From muci- +‎ -genous.

• IPA^(key): /mjuːˈsɪd͡ʒɪnəs/

mucigenous (comparative more mucigenous, superlative most mucigenous)

1. (physiology) Connected with the formation of mucin or mucus.
   • 1876, Michael Foster, A Textbook of Physiology:

     The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell.

2. resembling mucin

• mucigen

• “mucigenous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.