Significados de gummy substance en inglés

This was covered with a gummy substance extending to the end.

A putrefactive fermentation is thus set up which softens the gummy substance holding the fibres together.

On these leaves the small larvae of a winged insect appear covered over with a sweet, gummy substance.

Bees also make a gummy substance for varnishing their cells, which they procure from the buds of trees.

As Banks, suspicious of some gummy substance on the points of the spears, suggested poison, they were not followed up.

Shellac is the only natural resin - or gummy substance from a tree - that requires an animal middleman for its production.

It was long, sharp, and black, with a glazed look near the point as though some gummy substance had dried upon it.

Then the eggs are guided down through the long ovipositor to the place prepared for them, and fastened there by a gummy substance.

They bring home from the fields something besides pollen and honey; it is a gummy substance which they get from the buds of trees.

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.