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Meanings of mucilage in anglès
Polar glycoprotein and exopolysaccharide produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.
Synonyms
Examples for "gum"
Examples for "gum"
1
A rate spike would also gum up the credit market in Japan.
2
Today we are inundated with sports drinks, chewing gum and grooming products.
3
Two drops of gum in the centre of the flower imitated dew.
4
The drift stuff was upwards of thirteen feet high in the gum-trees.
5
I want you to ask Persson what kind of gum she chews.
1
Yes, yes, of course she is.' Mrs Castaway stirs the glue-pot pensively.
2
Often it will hold without binding or glue for a long time.
3
Some were weaker than modeling glue; others were used in aerospace construction.
4
FINANCING This is the glue that will hold any new pact together.
5
When we think we have them cold, they'll use the I'm-rubber-you're-glue strategy.
Usage of mucilage in anglès
1
This starch paste acts in the same manner as the insoluble mucilage.
2
Dissolve gun cotton in sulphuric ether, and thicken it with gum mucilage.
3
The root contains tannin and mucilage, it is therefore astringent and demulcent.
4
The walls were sealed with mucilage, and bonelike pillars supported the roof.
5
Certainly the missing document was not in the ink-pot or the mucilage bottle.
6
Cryptomonas, when dividing in a mucilage after encystment, recalls the condition in Gloeocystis.
7
They consist in this state almost exclusively of mucilage and sugar.
8
Stamps, wrapped in oil-silk with mucilage side next to the silk.
9
The seals had been cut out, and restored to their position with mucilage.
10
It tastes like mucilage, that glue that's used to paste photos into albums.
11
Between the veins are numerous cavities, filled with mucilage, and small, solid grains.
12
Fresh Lemon juice will not keep because of its mucilage, which soon ferments.
13
The mucilage of the glue mums had hardened into knobby shapes.
14
It is in his mouth, where certain glands produce a sticky substance like mucilage.
15
She saw glue mums spitting out mucilage as they shored up a damaged wall.
16
Diseases, Dose, etc.-Theinfusion and mucilage may be taken freely.
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Translations for mucilage
Mucilage through the time
Mucilage across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common