Publisher's blurb: Black Gold Or Something Stranger? ... ichor (countable and uncountable, plural ichors) 1 (Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods. 2 (by extension) 1 (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; 2 (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma. 3 (chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid. 4 (pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.