viscidity
- a word derived from viscid.
Example Sentences
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It is hardly proper, perhaps, to call this resistance by the name of friction; it is partly, perhaps mainly, due to the viscidity or adhesion of the water.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.
As to viscidity, two very viscid species, when young, are among the highly prized esculents by those who know them, viz.,
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end—the aid of insects in fertilisation.
From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
A casting thus treated subsided with surprising slowness, owing as I suppose to its viscidity.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Darwin, Charles
