slime
noun
thin, glutinous mud.
Example Sentences
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To this day, many biological slimes haven’t been researched enough to know the details of their structure and behavior.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2023
The slime room housed a “bunch of slimes she had made, a bunch of slimes she bought and then a bunch of things that, like, make slime,” Ellie says.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2022
It's a pure troll, meant to be so beyond the pale that even responding to it slimes the person falsely accused.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
But those metabolic pathways would not have worked well in the Sun-soaked shallow waters in which the slimes lived.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022
It seems that one of Ebola’s paths goes from the dead to the living, winding in trickles of uncoagulated blood and slimes that come out of the dead body.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
