of the nature of or resembling mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid
Derived forms
mucilaginously
adverb
Word origin
[1640–50; ‹ LL mūcilāgin- (s. of mūcilāgō) mucilage + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1640–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: datum, electric, intrigue, liaison, submarine-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)
Examples of 'mucilaginous' in a sentence
mucilaginous
This was after the slightly mucilaginous pumpkin soup, which is otherwise charming.