viscidity

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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

According to De Candolle, this may depend upon the greater or less amount of water they contain, upon the greater or less viscidity of their fluids, or the rapidity with which these fluids circulate.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

The Peruvian bark gatherers adulterate the true cinchona bark with this, but it may be detected by its white inner surface, its less powerful bitter taste, and a viscidity not possessed by the cinchonas.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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 Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander