green mold

noun

: a green or green-spored mold (as of the genera Penicillium or Aspergillus)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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 One was coated in dried flowers from the Austrian Alps and another was speckled in a blueish-green mold. —

Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2019 The resort was cited for 15 health code violations last year, among them for salmon being served without proper parasite destruction and an ice machine accumulating a black/green mold-like substance. —

Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 10 July 2018 Like that loaf of bread in your pantry, your favorite moisturizer can start growing fuzzy, green mold. —

Devon Abelman, Allure, 19 Sep. 2018 See More

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