mucilaginous.

Having a sticky, gelatinous quality like mucilage.

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• mucilaginous layer

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A mucilaginous layer coated the seed.

The mucilaginous surface clung to her glove.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Use more/most only for naturally gradable descriptive applications; technical classifications are normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.