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mucilage

NOUN
  1. cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
  2. a gelatinous substance secreted by plants

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  • Objective To evaluate the effects of meglumine diatrizoate mucilage ( MDC ) used as contrast medium in bronchography.
  • It is particularly by the mucilage, which is found in greater or less quantity in all vegetables, that the purity of oil is affected. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Acid hydrolysis of crude leaf mucilage extract in both Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundifolia revealed that the main sugar constituents were rhamnose, glucose, galactose, and arabinose.
  • The residue or "foots" produced during the refining of crude cotton-seed oil, known in the trade as "mucilage," may be converted into The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • MITHAL, B.M. and BHUTIANI, B.R. (1969) Binding properties of Plantago ovate (ispaghula) seed husk mucilage. Chapter 5
  • I have never had a problem with the okra 'mucilage', but I know some people are completely appalled by it. Gastropod: Okra
  • The Carbohydrates comprise starch, sugar, gum, mucilage, pectose, glycogen, &c.; cellulose and woody fibre are carbohydrates, but are little capable of digestion. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
  • The fresh juice supplying 30 percent potassium and the mucilage a good amount of niter and sodium.
  • In Papua New Guinea pods too fibrous to eat whole are often steamed in oil drums or the "mumu" pit, or baked in open fires; the seeds and mucilage are then scraped out and eaten. 3 Food Use and Nutritive Value
  • The name originally applied to a mucilage extracted from a red seaweed of the genus Eucheuma.
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