thick mucilage

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• mucilage — [myo͞o′si lij΄] n. [ME muscilage < MFr mucilage < LL mucilago, musty juice < L mucere: see MUCID] 1. any of various thick, sticky substances produced in certain plants ☆ 2. any watery solution of gum, glue, etc. used as an adhesive …   English World dictionary

• Mucilage — A sundew with a leaf bent around a fly trapped by mucilage. Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by most plants and some microorganisms. It is a polar glycoprotein and an exopolysaccharide. It occurs in various parts of nearly all… …   Wikipedia

• mucilage — noun /ˈmjuː.sɪ.lɪdʒ,ˈmju.sɪ.lɪdʒ,ˈmju.sə.lɪdʒ/ A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms …   Wiktionary

• mucilage — A pharmacopeial preparation consisting of a solution in water of the mucilaginous principles of vegetable substances; used as a soothing application to the mucous membranes and in the preparation of official and extemporaneous mixtures. [L.… …   Medical dictionary

• mucilage — n. (in pharmacy) a thick aqueous solution of a gum used as a lubricant in skin preparations (see also glycerin), for the production of pills, and for the suspension of insoluble substances. The most important mucilages are of acacia, tragacanth,… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Resina olibanum — Resina olibanumOlibanum. Frankincense.A dry gum resin obtained from Boswellia Carterii, Birdwood, with its varieties, and several other species of Boswellia.Nat. Ord. Burseraceae.SYNONYMS: Gummiresina olibanum, Thus.A classical incense used in… …   Wikipedia

• Carnivorous plant — Insectivorous Plants redirects here. For the book by Charles Darwin, see Insectivorous Plants (book). Nepenthes mirabilis in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not …   Wikipedia

• bryophyte — bryophytic /bruy euh fit ik/, adj. /bruy euh fuyt /, n. Bot. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts. [1875 80; < NL Bryophyta name of the group; see BRYO , PHYTE] * * * Any of the green,… …   Universalium

• Verbascum thapsus — Second year plant starting to flower, with a dead stem of the previous year, behind left Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Sundew — Taxobox name = Drosera image width = 250px image caption = Drosera tokaiensis regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Caryophyllales familia = Droseraceae genus = Drosera genus authority = L. subdivision ranks =… …   Wikipedia

• fern — fernless, adj. fernlike, adj. /ferrn/, n. any seedless, nonflowering vascular plant of the class Filicinae, of tropical to temperate regions, characterized by true roots produced from a rhizome, triangular fronds that uncoil upward and have a… …   Universalium