A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Mucor,-oris (s.m.III), abl. sg. mucore: mold, moldiness; the moldiness of bread; mustiness, as in wine vinegar; a moisture which flows from vines and is injurious to them (Lewis & Short); “a mucous substance” (Glare); a genus of molds, type of the family Mucoraceae, comprised of the genera Rhizopus and Mucor “that are destructive to food products (as bread, fruits, or vegetables)” (WIII);

- mucore albido (cortice scilicet in pulverem grossiorem soluto) obductum (S&A), covered with a whitish mold (namely with the cortex disintegrated into a coarser powder).

- quæ ubi attrectantur, ob rorem undique adhærentem veluti in mucorem invicem collabuntur & guttis stillantibus quasi in aquam resoluta apparent (Dill.) which [n.pl. = filaments] whenever they are touched, due to the dripping moisture clinging everywhere, mutually this way and that, they collapse together, for example into a mucous substance, and they appear, with dripping drops, as if dissolved in water.

Mucor Mich. ex Fr., Mucorales: M. flavidus, M. Aspergillus, M. caninus, M. murinus, M. tenellus, etc.

- [Mucor herbariorum ‘of herbaria;’ fungus] extra herbaria etiam panis indurati mucidorumque lignorum incolam passim vidimus (S&A), beyond [i.e. in addition to] herbaria we saw it everywhere an inhabitant of hardened [i.e. stale] bread and musty wood.