Wild wuchs on the hoof.
(1) A German word that ecologists apply to small organisms found on the surfaces of aquatic vegetation in freshwater habitats.
As if we needed a word for that, but aufwuchs is probably as good as any.
At least they don't bark all night.
(2) Glop.
(3) Slimy buildup.
(4) Algae, cyanobacteria, microbes, creepoids, tiny wiggly nameless swallowable things that gloop and munge around on aquatic plants and wet rocks.
(5) A phenomenon also known as "periphyton".
(6) The original German unimaginatively translates as "surface growth" or "overgrowth". But it's all just scum in the yuckpot.
(7) Anything you eat that subsequently makes you barfulent.
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Me? I never touch the stuff myself.
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