Sentence example with the word 'mucilaginous'

mucilaginous

adhesive, clotted, gaumy, gluey, gooey, gumlike, inspissated, pasty, slithery, stringy, thick, tremellose

Definition adj. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

Last update: June 21, 2015


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The taste is mucilaginous, sweetish and slightly bitter and aromatic. The root is frequently forked, and it is probably owing to this circumstance that medicinal properties were in the first place attributed to it, its resemblance to the body of a man being supposed to indicate that it could restore virile power to the aged and impotent.   [Please select]

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In its crude state cotton-seed oil is a dark fluid containing mucilaginous and colouring matter, and is not applicable for soap-making.   [Please select]

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The animal should be encouraged to eat soft feed and given mucilaginous drinks.   [Please select]

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The nests are formed of mucilaginous sea-weeds and have the appearance of isinglass.   [Please select]

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The first is contained in great abundance in flax and cotton-seed, the sun-flower, and many other of the mucilaginous seeds.   [Please select]

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A kind of mucilaginous fluid ran in his veins instead of blood, but Henry Lord, Ph.   [Please select]

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His new hat was a mucilaginous ruin; his dank coat sagged; his shapeless trousers flopped heavily, and his shoes gave forth marshy sounds as he walked.   [Please select]

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