Etymology

muciparous

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Today it means: Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin. Full definition →

Latin parere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromparere“to produce”
  2. English todaymuciparous

From mucus + Latin parere (“to produce”).

Words from the same roots

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