Bread Mold (Noun)
Meaning
A mold of the genus Rhizopus.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Bread mold can quickly overgrow a piece of stale bread when exposed to the right environmental conditions.
- In high school science labs, students often grow bread mold in a controlled experiment to study decomposition and decay.
- If bread mold spores land on the ideal host material they rapidly colonize it by branching into many growing tendrils.
- Stagnant conditions of water combined with nutritious decay accelerate growth in molds including Rhizopus the most well known being the black bread mold.
- Uncovered baked bread attracts air-born Rhizopus and usually appears white turning darker eventually until large area sections can reveal presence of true dark 'bread mold' roots forming along white aerial component tops of individual small mushrooms also starting an event commonly resulting simply just unproductively under.