viscid

IPA: vˈɪsɪd

adjective

  • Viscous; having a high viscosity.
  • Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
  • Covered with a viscid layer.
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Examples of "viscid" in Sentences

  • He touched a viscid substance.
  • It is a viscid or slimy substance.
  • It is a sticky everlasting erect viscid herb.
  • The cap is viscid and has a separable pellicle.
  • It is viscid when moist and the flesh is grey to white.
  • The cap is sticky and viscid when wet, but is often dry.
  • It is viscid when moist from a separable gelatinous pellicle.
  • Birdlime is a viscid, adhesive substance used in trapping birds.
  • The flowers are wide, long, and drooping, on short, viscid stalks.
  • The surface is viscid when moist from the separable gelatinous pellicle.
  • The vague goggling eyes...were cold and merciless in their viscid hatred...
  • The nattō strings itself are often described by the Japanese ideophone nebaneba, which roughly translates as 'viscid' or 'gooey'.
  • The hippos, sodden and viscid ... the crocodiles, deaf, angry, hungry ... swambats, as furious as rhinoceri whose size they doubled ...
  • The stew was barely warm but David started to eat anyway, hoping to forget his troubles for a little while as he shoveled the viscid beef out of the can.
  • More generally, an association between Larrea, tarbush (Florensia cernua) and viscid acacia (Acacia neovernicosa) dominates the northernmost portion of the desert.
  • With the ingestion, she trembles, the meal, thawed, invested now by all of him, crumbling, eyes strained wide, blood moving in viscid rivers, her venom coming back to poison her.
  • Considerably more alarming was a series of photographs of Linder and an American gallerist accomplice covered in a wild array of gloopy, dripping colour; in one image, only the artist's eyes were recognisable, such was the quantity of what seemed to be viscid pigment.
  • Tucson is the viscid sump toward which all these rough beasts slink, and apocalypse-specifically the end of the white man's reign in the Americas and the triumphant reclamation by Native Americans of their lands-is the crossbred offspring of all of their mongrelizing enterprises.
  • The crescent-shaped floor of the caldera teems with a network of smaller volcanic mouths, cones, domes, lava channels, dikes, lavas from light felsic flows to viscid red lavas and black obsidian blocks, ochre plains of sandy alluvial deposits and red and black volcanic ejecta, scoria, lapilli and pumice, from a long series of basaltic effusions.

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