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BREAD MOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bread mold mean?
• BREAD MOLD (noun)
The noun BREAD MOLD has 1 sense:
1. a mold of the genus Rhizopus
Familiarity information: BREAD MOLD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mold of the genus Rhizopus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bread mold; Rhizopus nigricans
Hypernyms ("bread mold" is a kind of...):
rhizopus (any of various rot causing fungi of the genus Rhizopus)
Holonyms ("bread mold" is a member of...):
genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
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