bread mold

American  

noun

1. any fungus of the family Mucoraceae, especially Rhizopus nigricans, that forms a black, furry coating on foodstuffs.

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Etymology

Origin of bread mold

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

The hospital was a Goliath of brown brick and gleaming glass, looming over a green lawn as bright as bread mold.

From Literature

For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact.

From Literature

Blue light affects all these organisms and entrains their daily cycle. it is kind of amazing to think we have similar genes as a bread mold, but we do!!

From New York Times

Her son Alexander learned several years ago, after starting a little late on a fifth-grade project growing bread mold, that he didn’t have enough time to allow the mold to finish growing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Digitalis comes from foxglove, quinine from cinchona bark, penicillin from bread mold and aspirin from willow tree bark.

From New York Times