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Another word for mucilage

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Noun
      1. A strong liquid adhesive obtained by boiling collagenous animal parts such as bones, hides, and hooves into hard gelatin and then adding water.
      2. Any of various similar adhesives, such as paste, mucilage, or epoxy.
      3. An adhesive force or factor:
      1. A building material made by grinding calcined limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar or concrete.
      2. Portland cement.
      3. Concrete.
      1. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.
      2. The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery.
      3. A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.
    See also:

    adhesive

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Sentence Examples

  • In other cases the mucilage is denser and the branches more closely compacted (Helminthora).

  • When it persists as a massive element of the seed its nutritive function is usually apparent, for there is accumulated within its cells reserve-food, and according to the dominant substance it is starchy, oily, or rich in cellulose, mucilage or proteid.

  • The mucilage must be acidulated with hydrochloric acid before dialysing, to set free the gummic acid.

  • assimilative layer, and may also by the production of mucilage be of use in the protection of the body in various ways.

  • types of glands also exist, either in connection with the epidermis or not, such as nectaries, digestive glands, oil, resin and mucilage glands, &c. They serve the most various purposes in the life of the plant, but they are not of significance in relation to the primary vital activities, and cannot be dealt with in the limits of the present article.l The typical epidermis of the shoot of a land plant does not absorb water, but some plants living in situations where they cannot depend on a regular supply from the roots (e.g.

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