mucilaginous

How to use mucilaginous in a sentence

• The first is contained in great abundance in flax and cotton-seed, the sun-flower, and many other of the mucilaginous seeds.

  Domestic Animals | Richard L. Allen

• Taste: Slightly acid and mucilaginous when raw; after cooking somewhat suggesting white meat of chicken.

  Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them | William Hamilton Gibson

• He mentions the mucilaginous testa possessed by many seeds, but which only becomes noticeable when they have been moistened.

  Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists | Various

• It also exudes from the articulations of its abdomen a yellow mucilaginous liquid, of a pungent and disagreeable odour.

  The Insect World | Louis Figuier

• All plants communicate to water some mucilaginous material which is carried over along with it.

  Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 | Carl Wilhelm Scheele