viscid

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Viscid: sticky: covered with a shiny, resinous or greasy matter.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Viscid or semi-solid bodies, such as pitch, would rapidly spread out and take on a surface as plane and smooth as water under the conditions of gravity upon the earth.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various

Viscid with rather minute pubescence; leaves lance-oblong or rhombic-lanceolate, rarely lance-linear, short-petioled.—Sandy fields, E. Mass. to Ky., south to Fla. and Tex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Mouth: Viscid saliva in mouth, raised by coughing; water in mouth with tearing pains in molars.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock