bread mold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bread mold
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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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 • Sep. 22, 2015
Caffeine was already known to alter the circadian clock in red bread mold, green algae, fruit flies, and sea snails.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2015
Many advances in modern genetics were achieved by the use of the red bread mold Neurospora crassa.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Despite their name, slime molds are not related to bread mold or the black mold that grows in damp houses.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2011
For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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