The mucus is thick.
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Mucus
//ˈmjuːkəs//
Synonyms for "mucus" (121 found)
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7 entriesderived
10 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
Translations
118 translations across 86 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mukozë noun (slippery secretion)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βλέννα noun (slippery secretion)
- μύξα noun (slippery secretion)
Arabic
4 entries- برابير noun (slippery secretion)
- بربور noun (slippery secretion)
- مخاط noun (slippery secretion)
- مُخَاط noun (slippery secretion)
Armenian
1 entries- լորձ noun (slippery secretion)
Aromanian
3 entries- muc noun (slippery secretion)
- mucã noun (slippery secretion)
- muts noun (slippery secretion)
Asturian
1 entries- mocu noun (slippery secretion)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- selik noun (slippery secretion)
Belarusian
1 entries- слізь noun (slippery secretion)
Bulgarian
1 entries- слуз noun (slippery secretion)
Burmese
1 entries- အချွဲ noun (slippery secretion)
Catalan
1 entries- moc noun (slippery secretion)
Chamicuro
1 entries- s̈hos̈hochi noun (slippery secretion)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黏液 noun (slippery secretion)
Czech
1 entries- sliz noun (slippery secretion)
Danish
1 entries- slim noun (slippery secretion)
Dutch
1 entries- slijm noun (slippery secretion)
Esperanto
1 entries- muko noun (slippery secretion)
Estonian
1 entries- lima noun (slippery secretion)
Faroese
1 entries- slím noun (slippery secretion)
Finnish
1 entries- lima noun (slippery secretion)
French
2 entries- mucosité noun (slippery secretion)
- mucus noun (slippery secretion)
Galician
2 entries- limo noun (slippery secretion)
- moco noun (slippery secretion)
Gamilaraay
1 entries- mirril noun (slippery secretion)
Georgian
1 entries- ლორწო noun (slippery secretion)
German
1 entries- Schleim noun (slippery secretion)
Greek
1 entries- βλέννα noun (slippery secretion)
Hawaiian
1 entries- wale noun (slippery secretion)
Hebrew
1 entries- רִיר noun (slippery secretion)
Hindi
1 entries- नाक noun (slippery secretion)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyálka noun (slippery secretion)
Icelandic
1 entries- slím noun (slippery secretion)
Ido
1 entries- muko noun (slippery secretion)
Ilocano
1 entries- muteg noun (slippery secretion)
Italian
1 entries- muco noun (slippery secretion)
Japanese
1 entries- 粘液 noun (slippery secretion)
Kankanaey
1 entries- muteg noun (slippery secretion)
Kazakh
2 entries- жалқық noun (slippery secretion)
- шырыш noun (slippery secretion)
Khmer
3 entries- រំអិល noun (slippery secretion)
- សេមហកលា noun (slippery secretion)
- សេម្ហៈ noun (slippery secretion)
Korean
1 entries- 점액 noun (slippery secretion)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- былжыр noun (slippery secretion)
- ылжыр noun (slippery secretion)
Lao
4 entries- ກະເທີ່ noun (slippery secretion)
- ເມືອກ noun (slippery secretion)
- ເສດ noun (slippery secretion)
- ເສມ noun (slippery secretion)
Latin
1 entries- mūcus noun (slippery secretion)
Latvian
1 entries- gļotas noun (slippery secretion)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gleivės noun (slippery secretion)
Low German
1 entries- Sliem noun (slippery secretion)
Macedonian
1 entries- слуз noun (slippery secretion)
Malay
1 entries- lendir noun (slippery secretion)
Manx
1 entries- carbeig noun (slippery secretion)
Mongolian
1 entries- салс noun (slippery secretion)
Māori
4 entries- hūpē noun (slippery secretion)
- hūwareware noun (slippery secretion)
- kea noun (slippery secretion)
- keha noun (slippery secretion)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- lînc noun (slippery secretion)
- lîncemade noun (slippery secretion)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- slim noun (slippery secretion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- slim noun (slippery secretion)
Occitan
1 entries- muc noun (slippery secretion)
Old Armenian
1 entries- մաղաս noun (slippery secretion)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- سوموك noun (slippery secretion)
Pashto
1 entries- مخاط noun (slippery secretion)
Persian
2 entries- خلم noun (slippery secretion)
- مخاط noun (slippery secretion)
Polish
2 entries- wydzielina noun (slippery secretion)
- śluz noun (slippery secretion)
Portuguese
2 entries- muco noun (slippery secretion)
- ranho noun (slippery secretion)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਸੀਂਢ noun (slippery secretion)
Quechua
2 entries- togro noun (slippery secretion)
- ñuti noun (slippery secretion)
Romanian
2 entries- muci noun (slippery secretion)
- mucus noun (slippery secretion)
Russian
1 entries- слизь noun (slippery secretion)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ronn noun (slippery secretion)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- slȗz noun (slippery secretion)
- слу̑з noun (slippery secretion)
Slovak
1 entries- sliz noun (slippery secretion)
Slovene
1 entries- sluz noun (slippery secretion)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ылјыр noun (slippery secretion)
Spanish
2 entries- moco noun (slippery secretion)
- mucosidad noun (slippery secretion)
Swahili
1 entries- kamasi noun (slippery secretion)
Swedish
1 entries- slem noun (slippery secretion)
Tagalog
1 entries- sipon noun (slippery secretion)
Tajik
1 entries- луоб noun (slippery secretion)
Tarifit
1 entries- axrur noun (slippery secretion)
Thai
3 entries- มูก noun (slippery secretion)
- เมือก noun (slippery secretion)
- เสมหะ noun (slippery secretion)
Turkish
2 entries- mukus noun (slippery secretion)
- sümük noun (slippery secretion)
Turkmen
1 entries- nem noun (slippery secretion)
Ukrainian
1 entries- слиз noun (slippery secretion)
Urdu
1 entries- مخاط noun (slippery secretion)
Uyghur
1 entries- شىللىق noun (slippery secretion)
Uzbek
1 entries- shilliq noun (slippery secretion)
Venetan
1 entries- napa noun (slippery secretion)
Vietnamese
3 entries- chất nhớt noun (slippery secretion)
- niêm dịch noun (slippery secretion)
- nước nhầy noun (slippery secretion)
Volapük
1 entries- slim noun (slippery secretion)
Yoruba
1 entries- ikun noun (slippery secretion)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The mucus is greenish yellow.
Source: tatoeba (318202)
I have mucus coming out of my eyes.
Source: tatoeba (323766)
Hagfish can produce amazing amounts of mucus.
Source: tatoeba (6589832)
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