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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gelatinous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pelagic habit and a delicate, gelatinous body account for their poor fossil record.
▪ An enamel pot arrived and we dipped our fingers in the sweet, gelatinous stuff.
▪ Fish package their excreta into a thin gelatinous tube before disposal.
▪ It too is gelatinous, and the upper surface if finely felted in texture.
▪ Seed pans should be filled with this and the gelatinous material containing the seed spread as evenly as possible over the surface.
▪ The gelatinous orange pebbles peeked up from a wrap of dark, green seaweed under a one-eyed yellow pond.
▪ The leaves and stems become soft and blackened and the root evil-smelling and gelatinous.
▪ The mustard came in a gelatinous sealed plastic envelope that he had to open with his teeth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gelatinous

Gelatinous \Ge*lat"i*nous\, a. [Cf. F. g['e]latineux.] Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gelatinous

1724, from gelatin + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux. Related: Gelatinously; gelatinousness.

Wiktionary
gelatinous

a. 1 jelly-like. 2 Of or referring to gelatin.

WordNet
gelatinous

adj. thick like gelatin [syn: gelatinlike, jellylike]

Usage examples of "gelatinous".

Gelatinous or interacinous adenoma, which consists in an enlargement of the acini by an accumulation of colloid material, and an increase in the interacinous tissue by a growth of round cells.

The beisa had slowed now to an exhausted trot, but the range was six hundred yards as the Count sighted across the intervening scrub and through heat-dancing air that swirled like gelatinous liquid.

The edges of the bubo were soft and almost gelatinous, but the center was still hard.

Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.

In addition to this flattening of affect, electronic media brings science fiction to its audience free of Science Fiction Culture, the history and view of science fiction laboriously hammered out over the last sixty or seventy years, created originally by dedicated fanatics wading up to their knees in gelatinous hectograph fluids.

And then the surface of the gelatinous river erupted, and the kidling was lifted clear on an arm of protoplasm and set on the banks directly in front of its mother.

Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.

He fondled the gelatinous packets strapped to his waist, touched the intravenous tabes running into his chest and neck.

Dark-suited militia tugging with hooks and poles at bloated bodies with eyes ripped from their heads, the blood set and gelatinous in their sockets.

He walked through the gelatinous wall of his vessel and stepped out, unprotected except for a film of sparkling moisture and his pearlescent gossamer garment, onto black ice and grayish-white snow.

He was still getting used to the lack of head movement caused by the gelatinous underlayer of the suits.

Someone had thoughtfully left a freefall shower sack unstowed from its closet, but he was in no mood to fight with the gelatinous bag even though it seemed alert and helpful, opening like a flower at his smelly presence.

You belabor it until any sound but the sound of that instrument is, to your ears, gelatinous babble.

In his hands he carried a spongelike creature that resembled the villips Yuuzhan Vong used to communicate over long distances, though this one was larger and more gelatinous.

Are there any symptoms of the gelatinous character of the effusions of the Lakers in the compositions of Homer?