| 单词 | mucilage |
| 释义 | mucilage (once / 10077 pages) n WORD FAMILY mucilage: mucilages, mucilaginous+/mucilaginous: mucilaginously USAGE EXAMPLESAt the end of each appendage glinted beads of gluey mucilage, waiting to ensnare an unsuspecting fly. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) Sometimes I cut things out of magazines and paste them into a scrapbook with LePage’s mucilage, from the bottle that looks like a chess bishop. Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye(1988) What the taste of mucilage might be I leave to the reader’s imagination. Scientific American(Jan 15, 2013) 1n a gelatinous substance secreted by plants Hyper gum any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying 2n cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive Syn|Hypo|Hyper glue, gum animal glue a protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horses casein gluemade from casein; used for e.g. plywood and cabinetwork fish gluegelatinous substance obtained by boiling skins fins and bones of fish marine glueglue that is not water soluble cement something that hardens to act as adhesive material |
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