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Examples of green mold in a Sentence
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Blue cheese is a category of cheese distinguished by the presence of blue or green mold, typically from strains of Penicillium roqueforti or Penicillium glaucum.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
Inspectors found insects – alive and dead – black and green mold, and mildew, within the plant in the weeks before Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc, issued a July 26 recall of more than 200,000 pounds of liverwurst due to potential listeria contamination.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2024
What Slattery conjures instead, for some reason, is a continual sourness and decay, which gets into every crevice of the action; Jay, who works at a subs franchise, saves money by buying out-of-date cheese and meat, scabrous with green mold.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
The ivories were already covered in green mold.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2022
Envy spread like green mold.
—Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
The Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, by the food-waste pioneer Dana Gunders, gives detailed practical advice, such as scraping a half-inch below blue-green mold on hard cheese to safely recover the rest.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
On various pieces of furniture, coin-sized patches of bright green mold that sprouted up only get bigger each day.
—Erica Lee, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
Good sterile technique can mean the difference between a pound of fresh mushrooms and jars full of green mold.
—Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above
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“Green mold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/green%20mold. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
green mold
noun
: a mold (as a penicillium) that is green or produces green spores
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