noun
mould
CEFR B2
a fungus that grows as a soft coating on damp or decaying material
In a sentence
Six example sentences with mould, each labelled with its topic.
After the floods receded, black mould crept up the plasterboard of every ground-floor flat within a fortnight.
Environment
The blue veins in the cheese are a deliberate mould, threaded through the curd with needles and left to spread for months.
Cooking
Archivists blamed mould for the loss of the parish registers, which had spent a wet century in a cellar below the vestry.
History
The doctor traced the child's winter cough to mould in the bedroom wall, and the symptoms cleared after the repair.
Medicine
Fleming noticed that a stray mould on his dish had killed the bacteria around it, and penicillin followed.
Science
The architect specified a ventilated cavity behind the cladding so mould could never take hold in the insulation.
Architecture
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