viscidity
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P. and s. quite glabrous, with yellow viscidity, shining when dry; flesh yellowish white. illibatus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end—the aid of insects in fertilisation.
From Life of Charles Darwin by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
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 Charles William Eliot
It is by some supposed that high colors and viscidity are indications of non-edible species, but there are numerous exceptions here.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
When the thrombus is comparatively free from red blood-corpuscles, the softened product, in consequence of its yellowish color, opacity, and viscidity, resembles pus.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
