(a.) Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands.
(a.) Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Causative pathogens were Staphylococcus in 18 cases, Streptococcus in 4, Stomatococcus mucilaginous in 1, Corynebacterium J.K. in 1, Enterobacter in 3, Acinetobacter in 3 and Pseudomonas in 2.
(2) Dissolved substances constitute the external mucilaginous layer and elements intimately incrusted in the wall.
(3) The content of mucilaginous substances, respectively the capacity to swell is primarily a characteristic specific for the variety.
(4) The mucilaginous glucan consists of 1,3-linked beta-glucan chains with branches of single glucose units attached by beta-1,6 linkages on every third unit, on average, along the chain.
(5) On microscopic examination a cornified squamous cell carcinoma was found including interspersed mucilaginous adenocarcinoma tissue.
(6) Pigment was deposited in the form of melanin granules both within the cell wall and within mucilaginous excrescences that were developed irregularly over the hyphal surface.
(7) Macroalgae (seaweeds) produce a diversity of mucilaginous substances, some of which are of considerable commercial and biotechnological importance (e.g.
(8) A water-soluble arabinoxylan (D-xylose and L-arabinose in the molar ratio 1.0:3.4) was isolated from the mucilaginous bark of Litsea glutinosa (Lauraceae).
(9) Establishment of axenic strains from the Microcystis cells exhibiting extracellularly mucilaginous materials was successful by using a combination of the agar plate technique and two-step centrifugation.
(10) Developing mycelium with dispersed hyphae became mucilaginous after 17-20 h culture, which indicated the process of sinking but after 24 h some part of the mycelium developed normally.
(11) Certain parts of this highly insoluble R-glucan bear a close structural similarity to the mucilaginous glucan present at the outer wall surface and in the medium.
(12) Failures were due to a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in 3 cases, a relapsing Stomatococcus mucilaginous infection in 1, a Streptococcus faecalis in 1, an Acinetobacter in 3 and a Pseudomonas in 2.
(13) There were differences in uniformity of uptake, the solution binders (PVP and gelatin) being more evenly distributed than the mucilaginous binders (starch and methylcellulose).
(14) While similar preservation was obtained in sectioned acervuli of Lecanosticta acicola and Marssonia juglandis and in pycnidia of Dothiorella ribis and Phomopsis occulta, the mucilaginous substances produced in these fructifications precluded observation of conidiophores.
(15) Persistence of V. cholerae inside the mucilaginous sheath of A. variabilis was observed by phase-contrast and fluorescent microscopy for more than 15 months after inoculation.
(16) The mucilaginous gel from the parenchymatous cells in the leaf pulp of Aloe vera has been used since early times for a host of curative purposes.
(17) Sexually and asexually flocculent fission-yeast cells cannot be distinguished from one another as both are heavily clad in "mucilaginous" or "hairy" coverings.
(18) This is usually due to a tumor, which may be anything from a simple mucous membrane hyperplasia with extreme mucous formation, or an adenoma, to a mucilaginous adenocarcinoma.
Slimy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.
(2) Only Candida albicans and the corresponding slimy coat were found on smooth areas of tube.
(3) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(4) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(5) Both symbiotic and free-living (non-associative) nitrogen fixation analyses (by acetylene reduction) revealed that the non-slimy, small colonies were significantly more effective than slimy, large colonies.
(6) At surgery, the mass was noted not to penetrate the superficial surface of the quadriceps tendon and was full of slimy fluid.
(7) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(8) This is a decision which will force talented young athletes to work another year for free while making huge amounts of money for everyone else at their unpaid workplace, to pass this off as somehow the "right thing to do" for the game or, even worse, is just slimy.
(9) No 'slimy' state of this fungus was observed and dimorphism was not confirmed.
(10) A slimy material, responsible for increased viscosity of these cultures, was digested by dextranase.
(11) Disease signs included acute death, inability to fly, lameness, inappetence, emaciation, polyuria, and the production of slimy, green droppings.
(12) With proteins and other polymers released from lysed bacteria, this slimy material may contribute directly to increased viscosity and foam formation.
(13) The secondary forms of the agglutinates were similar to those of Enterobacteriaceae, the typical primary form of the agglutination into slimy networks and spheres was not observed upon the restoration of agglutinability.
(14) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.
(15) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
(16) Even the briefest hint of a sniff of a rumour that the studio is going the “teen choice” route by plumping for looks over substance will see the movie sink faster than Luke’s X-wing in Yoda’s slimy Dagobah swamp, which is why rumoured candidates such as Glee’s Blake Jenner should be avoided like the Candorian plague .
(17) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(18) Buck Pal receptions are all 1970s vol-au-vents (complete with a slimy surprise lurking within), or squeezy cheese on a Ritz cracker.
(19) Snails, one of France's signature dishes, could be off the menu if the country fails to stem an invasion by a slimy worm from south-east Asia, scientists have said.
(20) They pull off an armed robbery and make it to Florida where they meet James Franco's slimy gangster, Alien, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most "repulsive cinematic creations in recent memory".