mucilaginousadj.

Brit.

/ˌmjuːsᵻˈladʒᵻnəs/, U.S.

/ˌmjusəˈlædʒənəs/

Forms: late Middle English muscilaginose, late Middle English muscilaginous, late Middle English muscilaginouse, late Middle English muscylagynouse, 1500s– mucilaginous, 1600s muccilaginous.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mucilaginosus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin mucilaginosus viscous (5th cent.) < mucilagin- , mucilago mucilage n. + -osus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French mucilagineux (1495; 14th cent. as muscilagineux), Italian mucillaginoso (1563).

1. Having the nature or properties of mucilage; of a soft, moist, and viscous quality or appearance, slimy. Also: relating to or characteristic of mucilage.

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 102 (MED) Causez of dislocacionez: Som beþ..inward, as muscilaginose humour contenyng þe iuncture.

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 107 (MED) Summe enpostumes..ben fulle of sotile fleume, and þer ben oþer þe whiche ben muscilaginous & viscous.

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 51 There is a certaine vnnaturall and mucilaginous fleame, grosse and thicke.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiii. 168 A jelly, or muccilaginous concretion.

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 109 Stones are produced out of water that hath a mucilaginous Mercury, which the Salt..fixeth into stones.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 71 A Pectoral Decoction..is endow'd with a mucilaginous..Sweetness.

1772 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 337 The mucilaginous or ropy substance which grows copiously on it.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiii. 299 It..has a mucilaginous and slightly sweet taste.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvii. 587 Piedra is supposed by some to be induced by the mucilaginous hair applications in vogue among the Colombians.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 135 As the beans come from the pulper, they are covered with a sticky mucilaginous material.

1966 Punch 2 Feb. 161/1 At Bagni Dormio the authorities are quite frank about what their mud consists of. It is ‘formed of mucilaginous masses of bacteria incorporated in substances elaborated in mineral waters.’

1997 Independent on Sunday 30 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 68/3 In each cherry the skin encloses a soft layer of mucilaginous pulp.

2. Containing, secreting, or coated with mucilage or other viscid substance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > containing, producing, or covered with resin or gum

resinous1597

resinifluous1657

rosinaceous1675

gummous1693

gummy1776

mucilaginous1796

resin1834

mucous1839

succiniferous1896

vernicose-

1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 189 I shall give them a more comprehensive name, such as Glandulæ Mucilaginosæ, or the mucilaginous Glands.

1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 397 The rough-leaved plants of the fifth class and first order are mucilaginous.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 195 In summer they feed on wild grasses, and the leaves of the most mucilaginous shrubs.

1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 245 Cotton wood, sycamore,..mucilaginous elm and red elm.

1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 487/2 The leaves of Benné are very mild and mucilaginous.

1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants xiii. 162 Some dicotyledon families contain resiniferous.., others mucilaginous cells.

1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xliv. 253 Pelagia looked down at her shiny cargo of mucilaginous animals, and poked them with her finger.

Compounds

mucilaginous gland n. (a) Anatomy any of the accumulations of adipose tissue beneath the synovial membrane of certain joints, originally supposed to secrete synovial fluid (now historical); (b) Zoology a spermatophoric gland of a cephalopod (now rare).

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun]

miliary gland1691

mucilaginous gland1691

mucous gland1699

acinus1702

crypta1726

glandule1751

crypt1804

globate gland1813

ganglion1819

submaxillary1824

lacrimal1829

germ gland1840

sweat-gland1845

ductless glands1849

lymph node1892

metasternal1965

1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 189 I shall give them a more comprehensive name, such as Glandulæ Mucilaginosæ, or the mucilaginous Glands.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 261 The semilunar cartilages, mucilaginous glands, and the adipose substance, in which the glands were seated, were all moisten'd with sinophia.

1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) I. p. cclxxiii The fringed vascular folds of the synovial membrane were described, by Dr. Clopton Havers (1691), under the name of the mucilaginous glands, and he regarded them as an apparatus for secreting synovia.

1919 G. A. Drew in Jrnl. Morphol. 32 400 The portion of the spermatophoric organ joined by the vas deferens I will call the mucilaginous gland.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs vii. 139 The two mucilaginous glands..secrete the axial material, i.e. the mucous matrix of the sperm mass, the cement body and the filament.

1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iv. 427/2 Accumulations of adipose tissue are characteristic of the synovial membrane of many joints, and these articular fat pads were mistakenly identified as ‘mucilaginous glands’ by earlier anatomists.

1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 248/1 Mucilaginous gland, spermatophore gland.

Derivatives

muciˈlaginously adv. rare

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1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 79 I have..known them [sc. eggs] by bits of straw and flecks of dirt mucilaginously adhering to their shells.

1890 Daily News 29 July 5/1 Seaweed..is mucilaginously pleasing to the taste.

† mucilaginousness n. Obsolete rare

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1650 J. French tr. Paracelsus Of Nature of Things 13 in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie Any stone put in the Water, doth suddenly contract a mucilaginousnesse to itself.

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 112 It attracts to it selfe the mucilaginousnesse of the water.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mucilaginous
释义	mucilaginousadj. Brit. /ˌmjuːsᵻˈladʒᵻnəs/, U.S. /ˌmjusəˈlædʒənəs/ Forms: late Middle English muscilaginose, late Middle English muscilaginous, late Middle English muscilaginouse, late Middle English muscylagynouse, 1500s– mucilaginous, 1600s muccilaginous. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mucilaginosus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin mucilaginosus viscous (5th cent.) < mucilagin- , mucilago mucilage n. + -osus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French mucilagineux (1495; 14th cent. as muscilagineux), Italian mucillaginoso (1563). 1. Having the nature or properties of mucilage; of a soft, moist, and viscous quality or appearance, slimy. Also: relating to or characteristic of mucilage. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 102 (MED) Causez of dislocacionez: Som beþ..inward, as muscilaginose humour contenyng þe iuncture. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 107 (MED) Summe enpostumes..ben fulle of sotile fleume, and þer ben oþer þe whiche ben muscilaginous & viscous. 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 51 There is a certaine vnnaturall and mucilaginous fleame, grosse and thicke. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiii. 168 A jelly, or muccilaginous concretion. View more context for this quotation 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 109 Stones are produced out of water that hath a mucilaginous Mercury, which the Salt..fixeth into stones. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 71 A Pectoral Decoction..is endow'd with a mucilaginous..Sweetness. 1772 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1777) I. 337 The mucilaginous or ropy substance which grows copiously on it. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiii. 299 It..has a mucilaginous and slightly sweet taste. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxxvii. 587 Piedra is supposed by some to be induced by the mucilaginous hair applications in vogue among the Colombians. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 135 As the beans come from the pulper, they are covered with a sticky mucilaginous material. 1966 Punch 2 Feb. 161/1 At Bagni Dormio the authorities are quite frank about what their mud consists of. It is ‘formed of mucilaginous masses of bacteria incorporated in substances elaborated in mineral waters.’ 1997 Independent on Sunday 30 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 68/3 In each cherry the skin encloses a soft layer of mucilaginous pulp. 2. Containing, secreting, or coated with mucilage or other viscid substance. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > containing, producing, or covered with resin or gum resinous1597 resinifluous1657 rosinaceous1675 gummous1693 gummy1776 mucilaginous1796 resin1834 mucous1839 succiniferous1896 vernicose- 1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 189 I shall give them a more comprehensive name, such as Glandulæ Mucilaginosæ, or the mucilaginous Glands. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 397 The rough-leaved plants of the fifth class and first order are mucilaginous. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 195 In summer they feed on wild grasses, and the leaves of the most mucilaginous shrubs. 1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 245 Cotton wood, sycamore,..mucilaginous elm and red elm. 1885 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 487/2 The leaves of Benné are very mild and mucilaginous. 1960 K. Esau Anat. Seed Plants xiii. 162 Some dicotyledon families contain resiniferous.., others mucilaginous cells. 1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin xliv. 253 Pelagia looked down at her shiny cargo of mucilaginous animals, and poked them with her finger. Compounds mucilaginous gland n. (a) Anatomy any of the accumulations of adipose tissue beneath the synovial membrane of certain joints, originally supposed to secrete synovial fluid (now historical); (b) Zoology a spermatophoric gland of a cephalopod (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun] miliary gland1691 mucilaginous gland1691 mucous gland1699 acinus1702 crypta1726 glandule1751 crypt1804 globate gland1813 ganglion1819 submaxillary1824 lacrimal1829 germ gland1840 sweat-gland1845 ductless glands1849 lymph node1892 metasternal1965 1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 189 I shall give them a more comprehensive name, such as Glandulæ Mucilaginosæ, or the mucilaginous Glands. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 261 The semilunar cartilages, mucilaginous glands, and the adipose substance, in which the glands were seated, were all moisten'd with sinophia. 1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) I. p. cclxxiii The fringed vascular folds of the synovial membrane were described, by Dr. Clopton Havers (1691), under the name of the mucilaginous glands, and he regarded them as an apparatus for secreting synovia. 1919 G. A. Drew in Jrnl. Morphol. 32 400 The portion of the spermatophoric organ joined by the vas deferens I will call the mucilaginous gland. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs vii. 139 The two mucilaginous glands..secrete the axial material, i.e. the mucous matrix of the sperm mass, the cement body and the filament. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iv. 427/2 Accumulations of adipose tissue are characteristic of the synovial membrane of many joints, and these articular fat pads were mistakenly identified as ‘mucilaginous glands’ by earlier anatomists. 1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 248/1 Mucilaginous gland, spermatophore gland. Derivatives muciˈlaginously adv. rare ΚΠ 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 79 I have..known them [sc. eggs] by bits of straw and flecks of dirt mucilaginously adhering to their shells. 1890 Daily News 29 July 5/1 Seaweed..is mucilaginously pleasing to the taste. † mucilaginousness n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1650 J. French tr. Paracelsus Of Nature of Things 13 in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie Any stone put in the Water, doth suddenly contract a mucilaginousnesse to itself. 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 112 It attracts to it selfe the mucilaginousnesse of the water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425
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