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viscid
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Word definitions for viscid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the properties of glue [syn: gluey , glutinous , gummy , mucilaginous , pasty , sticky , viscous ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 viscous; having a high viscosity. 2 sticky, slimy, or glutinous. 3 Covered with a viscid layer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viscid \Vis"cid\, a. [L. viscidus, fr. viscum the mistletoe, birdlime made from the berries of the mistletoe; akin to Gr. ?: cf. F. viscide.] Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sticky," 1630s, from French viscide or directly from Late Latin viscidus "sticky, clammy," from Latin viscum "mistletoe, birdlime" (see viscous ). Related: Viscidity (1610s); viscidly .
Usage examples of viscid.
The glands which had remained in contact for two or three days with the viscid masses were not discoloured, and apparently had absorbed little of the liquefied tissue, or had been little affected by it.
His flesh turns to viscid, transparent jelly that drifts away in green mist, unveiling a monster black centipede.
I gently opened one leaf, and the meat now consisted of a minute central sphere, partially digested and surrounded by a thick envelope of transparent viscid fluid.
Drosera in a state of nature cannot fail to profit to a certain extent by this power of digesting pollen, as innumerable grains from the carices, grasses, rumices, firtrees, and other windfertilised plants, which commonly grow in the same neighbourhood, will be inevitably caught by the viscid secretion surrounding the many glands.
The gynostemium, whilst spontaneously moving, comes into contact with the viscid labellum, to which it adheres, until freed by the increasing tension of the parts or by being touched.
I was in the bows of the boat, pupling the scum from side to side, and trying to break up the viscid, clinging muck.
The Bracken has branched riblets, and is more viscid, mucilaginous, and diuretic, than the Male Fern.
Drosera are continually secreting viscid fluid to replace that lost by evaporation, yet they do not secrete the ferment proper for digestion when mechanically irritated, but only after absorbing certain matter, probably of a nitrogenous nature.
The pedicels are formed of several rows of cells, and support rather large globular heads, secreting viscid matter, by which minute insects are occasionally, though rarely, caught.
Drosera, on the other hand, lives chiefly on insects which are good flyers, especially Diptera, caught by the aid of its viscid secretion.
After three days the leaves partially reexpanded, and by this time almost all the viscid fluid on their discs was absorbed.
The leaves began to reexpand after four or five days, much viscid fluid being left on their discs, as if but little had been absorbed.
These leaves reexpanded after two days, and the viscid fluid left on their discs was then carefully scraped off and examined.
The secretion from the glands is extremely viscid, so that it can be drawn out into long threads.
The gynostemium, whilst spontaneously moving, comes into contact with the viscid labellum, to which it adheres, until freed by the increasing tension of the parts or by being touched.