viscidity
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I have not rejected any by design, merely because they were unnecessary or exuberant, but have received those which by different writers have been differently formed, as viscid, and viscidity, viscous, and viscosity.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William
Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
The newborn worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
This honey-dew must not be confounded with the normal viscidity of certain insectivorous plants—e.g.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
It is a question, apparently, of removing a few atoms of dust or else some traces of viscidity that remain from the evil contact with the snail.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
