MEANING
Soft, thick, and jellylike in consistency.
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- gelatinous mass
- gelatinous substance
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A gelatinous mass slid slowly from the split capsule.
The laboratory preserved the gelatinous sample in a shallow dish.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative: more gelatinous; superlative: most gelatinous. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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