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Meanings of viscidity in English

The property of being cohesive and sticky.

      Usage of viscidity in English
      1
      Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity?
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      2
      Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.
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      3
      Ben peered ahead through the gloom, trying to see some difference in the texture and viscidity of the mist.
      The Tangle Box
      4
      The new-born worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire-gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.
      The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
      Viscidity through the time