Viscid (sticky)

(Pertaining to mushroom cap) slimy or slippery surface when wet, becoming sticky as it starts to dry.


Having a glutinous surface.


(of cap or stem) Slippery to the touch when wet from a thin mucous layer, becoming sticky when losing moisture.


Referring to a liquid which is sticky and slow-moving.


Adhering, glutinous, sticky. In bacteriology, said of a colony that strings out by clinging to a needle that is touched to the culture and withdrawn. In a liquid culture the sediment rises in a coherent strand when the culture tube is swirled.


 


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