mycoderma (English, noun)
expansion: mycoderma (plural mycodermata or mycodermas)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One 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.
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A 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.
tags: archaic
countable
Forms:
form: mycodermata
tags: plural
form: mycodermas
tags: plural
form: mycoderm
tags: alternative