mucilaginous
- adjective
- /ˌmjuːsɪˈleɪdʒɪnəs/
- Specialized
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mucilaginoso
- When cooked, the mucilaginous seed coating thickens the sauce beautifully.
- mucilaginous quality
Examples
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The chef added a mucilaginous ingredient to the soup to enhance its creamy consistency.
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To mediate such extremes, the fungal colonists secrete sticky mucilaginous sheaths that help them hang on, but it's a tenuous existence nevertheless.
Academic text (2001) -
Only Mazzy Gort seems unaffected, feeding the mucilaginous paste into the slot of his mouth as unconcernedly as if he were at a hot dog stand in some fantastical place like Peoria or Oshkosh.
Fiction book (1995) -
The mucilaginous texture of the aloe vera gel helps soothe sunburned skin.
Synonyms
126
1.0
Covered with a substance that keeps it on other things
11
6.1
Thick and sticky so it does not flow easily
2
7.7
Sticky like glue that easily sticks to things
1
3.2
Thick and sticky so things stick together
1
7.3
Being soft and sticky, like thick glue
1
9.9
Thick and sticky like glue or syrup
1
3.7
Sticky and likely to cling to your hands
Like the thick sticky fluid the body makes
Feels thick, sticky, and slippery like the mucus the body makes
Sticky and thick so it stays on hands or objects
Antonyms
How Sticky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mucilaginous comes from mucilage, which itself comes from Latin mucus meaning 'mucus' or 'slime'. So mucilaginous describes something sticky and gluey, like the slimy coating of okra or soaked seeds.