Definitionn. a gelatinous substance secreted by plants
Last update: June 21, 2015
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When it persists as a massive element of the seed its nutritive function is usually apparent, for there is accumulated within its cells reserve-food, and according to the dominant substance it is starchy, oily, or rich in cellulose, mucilage or proteid. [Please select]
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Beside grape sugar, honey contains manna, mucilage, pollen, acid, and other vegetable odoriferous substances and juices. [Please select]
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Besides its hygienic properties, the apple is full of sugar and mucilage, which make it highly nutritious. [Please select]
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Mucilage consists of cotton-seed oil soap, together with the colouring and resinous principles separated during the treatment of the crude oil. [Please select]
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It must come from some hairy-leaved plant, one of the Boragineae perhaps, rich both in mucilage and the necessary bristles. [Please select]
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ANXIOUS INQUIRER:--It is not advisable to curl your hair with mucilage if you can get anything else. [Please select]
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(CECILY, BITTERLY: "I suppose I'll never hear the last of that mucilage."') [Please select]
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