Viscid
['vɪsɪd]
Definition
(a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Glutinous, viscous, sticky, tenacious, SLABBY.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Glutinous, ropy, gelatinous, sticky, cohesive
ANT:Watery, limpid, tenacious, incohesive
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Examples
- When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But who invented the method of blowing the viscid mass into form on the end of a hollow tube? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In most flowers belonging to other orders the stigma secretes a little viscid matter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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