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mucilaginous

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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.

Taste: Slightly acid and mucilaginous when raw; after cooking somewhat suggesting white meat of chicken.

He mentions the mucilaginous testa possessed by many seeds, but which only becomes noticeable when they have been moistened.

It also exudes from the articulations of its abdomen a yellow mucilaginous liquid, of a pungent and disagreeable odour.

All plants communicate to water some mucilaginous material which is carried over along with it.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mucilaginous, such as: adhesive, clammy, gelatinous, gluey, glutinous, and gooey.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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