mucilage


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Synonyms for mucilage

a gelatinous substance secreted by plants

Related Words

cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

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To our knowledge, breeding programs with a focus on mucilage in the seed coat do not exist, although a considerable amount of research has already been done in this area.
The researchers first separated the mucilage into its two main components--a liquid and a gel.
Cinnamon contains a water-soluble fiber called mucilage that coats the throat.
From the sweet potato came vinegar, molasses, starch, breakfast food, tapioca, mucilage, crystallized ginger, synthetic rubber, and 100 additional products.
The first one related to aid for fishermen and shellfish producers affected by the presence of mucilage or a type of pollution which makes shellfish toxic in the Adriatic Sea in 2000.
* Marshmallow root, isolated from a plant that grows in wet, marshy areas, possesses a high mucilage content that soothes mucus membranes
In the former, the whole fruit is dried on terraces which allows the sugars in the mucilage to be absorbed by the seeds.
Mucilage, a combination of various polysaccharides may actually have some medicinal effect in soothing inflamed mucous membranes.
vallisneriifolia, because both the abundance of flying insects and the retention capacity of leaf mucilage varies between habitats (Zamora 1995, Zamora et al.
The fiber in some desert plants is found in the form of mucilage, a seed coating that becomes gelatinous when combined with liquid.
Mallow contains a sweet mucilage, which has unique healing and lubricating properties.
Donald Culross Peattie, in his book "A Natural History of Western Trees," said that, "As early as 1871, more than 12,000 pounds of the gum were gathered in one Texas county alone and sent east for use in the preparation of gumdrops and mucilage." Even today, several hundred pounds of the gum is shipped to Australia every year.
a) Sterilisation: Fruit bunches are sterilised to inactivate the enzyme responsible for the breakdown of oil to free fatty acids, to loosen the fruits from Bunches and to coagulate mucilage to acid recovery.
Another unusual effect is writing the text in fabric paint, glitter mucilage or tinted, white glue.
89 Binders $42.54 5.00 5.4 Crayons, chalk, markers 48.28 5.67 6.4 Envelopes 61.95 7.28 7.5 Filler paper 112.54 13.23 4.1 Paste, glue, mucilage 31.31 3.68 4.3 Playing cards, chips 20.93 2.46 5.1 Stationery 8.22 0.97 6.7 Subject-theme notebooks 75.72 8.90 5.7 Tablets 61.65 7.24 6.5 Tapes 94.62 11.12 3.9 Writing instruments 193.01 22.68 5.1 All other 100.17 11.77 3.2 Category total $850.94 100.00 5.0 paper.