Noun: mycoderma
| Singular | mycoderma |
| Plural | mycodermata; mycodermas |
Sample Sentences
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The sugar is first decomposed by the anærobiotic yeast plant, and the residues which it leaves behind are consumed in their turn by the ærobiotic mycodermata. There are many other ways in which the sugar can be resolved into carbonic dioxide and water, but everywhere there is the same mixture of anærobiotic and ærobiotic organisms. But it is unnecessary to insist. Enough has already been said to show how the different hydrocarbons of a quantity of wort disappear. [1890, Emma S. Merritt, “Report of Committee on Histology and Microscopy. The role of bacteria in fermentation and putrefaction”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of California, volume 20: Session of 1890, page 205:]
Nouns inflected like mycoderma
schema,
smegma,
hyperschema,
mycoderma,
zeugma,
nomisma,
ancylostoma,
epirrhema,
antisigma,
toxoplasma,
sterigma,
necrogranuloma,
cathisma,
lymphoma,
derma,
syntagma,
stoma,
eczema,
conidioma,
bregma, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Nineteenth century. Appellativization from genus name Mycoderma, which was coined in 1822 as a scientific name for the putative genus of organisms in mother of vinegar; they were named thus under the belief that they were fungi (although in fermentation there may also be bacteria present besides the yeast), hence the combining form myco- (for more, see Wikipedia); by surface analysis, myco- + derma, where the latter component refers to the "skin" formed on fermenting liquid.