mucilage

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Mucilage, also known by the viscerally accurate description of sea snot, is produced naturally by phytoplankton and usually consumed by other marine life, including jellyfish and sea cucumbers.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

"Mucilage owes its nutritive quality to the various substances to which it serves as a vehicle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mucilage, paste, stationery; the half-dozen sorts of envelopes and letter-heads.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

Or with the flesh and some juyce of Quinces, make Marmulate in the Ordinary way; which whiles it is boiling, put to it the Mucilage of the seeds to Incorporate it with the Marmulate.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Mucilage sucks out the ink and makes the scraps unreadable; 4.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Paine, Albert Bigelow