blue mould

noun

1. Also called: green mould. any fungus of the genus Penicillium that forms a bluish mass on decaying food, leather, etc

2. any fungal disease of fruit trees characterized by necrosis and a bluish growth on the affected tissue: mostly caused by Penicillium species

Example Sentences

Delving in the bottom of the bag, you pull out a neglected piece of bread covered in small bits of white and blue mould.

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Mrs Squair, 76, said: "It was so bad, even our three-piece suite ended up with blue mould all over it all the way up the side."

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Bread with white and blue mould on it is fine to cut around and eat but black mould is dangerous.

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Back in the 1990s, in his first incarnation as a comedian, Newman often played the part of FJ Lewis, a history professor prone to comparing his comedy partner David Baddiel to such things as a "piece of old crust, with, like, blue mould all over it".

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I am ever reminded of blue mould, of stale damp.

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