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Meanings of glutinous in inglês

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive.

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Usage of glutinous in inglês
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The blood flowed freely and collected on his fingers in glutinous masses.
The Downfall
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Slowly the glutinous adhesion gave way, and slowly the writing revealed itself.
Wilfrid Cumbermede
3
The glutinous or oily exudation that covers them is a brilliant varnish.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
4
Puddings, cereals, and other glutinous mixtures are often cooked in this way.
Public School Domestic Science
5
The psychic plane was thick with the glutinous effluvia of incomprehensible minds.
Perdido Street Station
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Presently he handed a small wad of glutinous gum to his leader.
The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
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The night was close, and the glutinous rainclouds made it more so.
Perdido Street Station
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Suddenly a large, round, flattened, glutinous mass shot from beneath the crevice.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction
9
The stone floor of the cell was a lake of glutinous blood.
Slow decay
10
The ground beneath the grunting, scrabbling mass became glutinous with shed blood.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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It was accented, glutinous as if words were congealing in a throat.
Iron Council
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The card tables were still visible under mushroom caps of clear glutinous gel.
Leviathan Wakes
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At the same time glutinous rice is being cooked inside lengths of bamboo.
Full Circle
14
It is a white-silk pill, soft to the touch and glutinous.
The Life of the Spider
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The splints, again, are covered with cloth bandages-linenpreferably-soakedin a glutinous mixture.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
16
Diet of the lightest kind, containing meat, but still mainly glutinous.
Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...
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