mycoderma

plural mycodermata · plural mycodermas · alternative mycoderm

1. archaiccountableuncountablebiologyOne 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. archaiccountablebiologyA 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.

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   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 anærobiotic and ærobiotic organisms. But it is unnecessary to insist. Enough has already been said to show how the different hydrocarbons of a quantity of wort disappear.

   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, volume 20: Session of 1890, page 205

plural mycodermata · plural mycodermas · alternative mycoderm

1. countableobsoleteuncountablebiologyMucous membrane (mucosa).