birdlime
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Tables, people, pipes and wine bottles were all reduced to barely decipherable fragments, each seen from a different angle and painted in various shades of birdlime and mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
After that, Nhamo reinforced the thorn-bush barrier around her trees and added a coat of birdlime to the bark.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The baboons learned about the birdlime, too, and all she found now were a few forlorn feathers.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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