Viscid

(a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

编辑:奥尔加

• When an insect visits a flower of this kind, it rubs off some of the viscid matter, and thus at the same time drags away some of the pollen-grains. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But who invented the method of blowing the viscid mass into form on the end of a hollow tube? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In most flowers belonging to other orders the stigma secretes a little viscid matter. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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