Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling mucilage; moist and sticky.
- adjective Relating to, consisting of, or secreting mucilage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy, muciparous; secreting a glairy or viscid substance like mucus: specifically applied to synovial membranes, certain of whose fringed vascular processes were called
mucilaginous glands by Clopton Havers in 1691. - Slimy; ropy; moist, soft, and slightly viscid; partaking of the nature of mucilage: as, a mucilaginous gum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage.
- adjective Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling
mucus ;slimy and viscous.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the sticky properties of an adhesive
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Examples
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Christine -- "mucilaginous" is a disgusting adjective and shouldn't be attached to anything edible.
Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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My grandmother used to make it and I distinctly remember making my mind up to hate it before I ever tried it based entirely on the word "mucilaginous" which always occured in the same breath as "okra.".
Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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You can read sample definitions of okra (containing the word "mucilaginous") at Dictionary. com or Hyperdictionary; there's also one without in the Wikipedia (though the word does appear later on the page in the discussion of how to cook okra).
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Harper I drank last night has both intoxicating and mucilaginous properties.
Matt Slade, Esq.--Mascot Defense Attorney Con Chapman 2011
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The principle problem to overcome when making strawberry jam is their lack of pectin, which, according to Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course, is a "mucilaginous substance" tasty that rather handily, acts a setting agent.
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Due to the mucilaginous nature of cactus fruit, tunas are a natural for making a sorbet or ice cream.
Cactus fruit sorbet 2009
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Then there's the mistake of cooking them to death, at which point, Joe says, "they would turn into a mucilaginous mush."
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When fenugreek seeds are moistened with water they become slightly mucilaginous and hence the tea made from them has the power to dissolve sticky substances such as mucus.
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Algal communities in shallow flowing or static wetlands produce mats or mucilaginous clusters that float in the water but are attached to rocks underneath [57].
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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The root has a styptic bitter taste ; the leaves and flowers are bitter and mucilaginous.
This is what I was trying to photograph at midnight, in the moonlight. Ann Althouse 2009
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