Crossword-Solution: MUCILAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mucilage | n. | A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc. |
| Mucilage | n. | An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “MUCILAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mix of glue and other adhesives | 1 answer |
| Relative of library paste | 1 answer |
| Solution of gum | 1 answer |
| Viscous adhesive | 1 answer |
| adhesive tape | 1 answer |
| ADHESIVE gum | 2 answers |
| Slimy substance | 5 answers |
| Stickum | 6 answers |
| grout | 10 answers |
| A GELATINOUS SUBSTANCE SECRETED BY PLANTS | 11 answers |
| viscous substance | 12 answers |
| Sticky stuff | 30 answers |
| Glue | 32 answers |
| Gum | 34 answers |
| Adhesive | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MUCILAGE (5)
The flora was represented by beautiful floating seaweeds, laminariae, and macrocystes, impregnated with the mucilage that transudes through their pores; and among which I gathered an admirable Nemastoma Geliniarois, that was classed among the natural curiosities of the museum.
Berres, and consisted in covering the plate with the mucilage of gum arabic, and then immersing the plate in nitric acid of different strengths.
After repeated experiments of this kind, apparently conducted with great care, Reaumur reached the conclusion that "the gastric juice has no more effect out of the living body in dissolving or digesting the food than water, mucilage, milk, or any other bland fluid."(3) Just why all of these experiments failed to demonstrate a fact so simple does not appear; but to Spallanzani, at least, they were by no means conclusive, and he proceeded to elaborate upon the experiments of Reaumur.
And the curious sea-urchin, that looked as if he was made only for ornament, when he had once got rid of his spines, and the transparent jelly-fish, that seemed to have no more right to be alive than a ladleful of mucilage,--and the razor-shells, and the barnacles, and the knotted kelp, and the flabby green sea-aprons,--there was no end to the interesting things I found when I was trusted to go down to the edge of the tide alone.
The leaves form a sort of mucilage in the water by longer stirring, which is said to have diuretic properties besides.
Quotes with MUCILAGE (3)
The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent. Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay. She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
But then, staring at the label on one crate, which read SWORD-CANE-DLUBECK SHOE TREE-HORASUITS (3)-HORAASSORTED HANDKERCHIEFS (6)-HORAJosef felt a bloom of dread in his belly, and all at once he was certain that it was not going to matter one iota how his father and the others behaved. Orderly or chaotic, well inventoried and civil or jumbled and squabbling, the Jews of Prague were dust on the boots of the Germans, to be whisked off with an indiscriminate broom. Stoicism and …
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–2000).