blue mold

noun

Also called green mold. any fungus of the genus Penicillium, which forms a bluish-green, furry coating on foodstuffs inoculated by its spores.
Plant Pathology.
  1. a disease of plants, characterized by necrosis of leaves or fruit and the growth of bluish or grayish mold on affected parts, caused by any of several fungi, as of the genus Penicillium or Peronospora tabacina.
  2. downy mildew (def. 2).

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Origin of blue mold

First recorded in 1655–65

Words nearby blue mold

blue marlin, blue mass, blue melilot, blue merle, blue mockingbird, blue mold, blue Monday, blue moon, blue mould, Blue Mountains, blue mud
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Example sentences from the Web for blue mold

  • You and your wife Joanna may stagnate here till you blue-mold, for me.

    The Midnight Queen|May Agnes Fleming