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Meanings of gummy substance in English
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Usage of gummy substance in English
1
This was covered with a gummy substance extending to the end.
2
A putrefactive fermentation is thus set up which softens the gummy substance holding the fibres together.
3
On these leaves the small larvae of a winged insect appear covered over with a sweet, gummy substance.
4
Bees also make a gummy substance for varnishing their cells, which they procure from the buds of trees.
5
As Banks, suspicious of some gummy substance on the points of the spears, suggested poison, they were not followed up.
6
Shellac is the only natural resin - or gummy substance from a tree - that requires an animal middleman for its production.
7
It was long, sharp, and black, with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substance had dried upon it.
8
Then the eggs are guided down through the long ovipositor to the place prepared for them, and fastened there by a gummy substance.
9
They bring home from the fields something besides pollen and honey; it is a gummy substance which they get from the buds of trees.
10
I found a singular moth- and fly-catching, plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.