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These rewards include pseudopollen, wax or a viscid, resinous material secreted by the labellum and floral nectar.
Eccrine sweat glands produce a watery secretion, whereas apocrine secretion is more viscid.
The naked seeds of T. aphyllus are covered entirely by a viscid layer that adheres most of the time to the cuticle and spines of cacti.
While the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative.
Scoop out the peanut butter into a separate large saucepan, add cloves, peppercorns and 500 ml of hot water and blend with a ladle into a smooth slightly viscid paste.
During the cementing process, the female places the tip of the abdomen on a surface and begins to exude a viscid fluid.
In fetuses, intestinal obstruction may result from the production of viscid meconium.
Another technique is to make soup more viscid by adding cold butter to it when it's fully done using a whisk.
Occasionally, clear, viscid droplets exude from the petioles, midribs or veins on the lower leaf surfaces of infected plants.
This viscid fungus, smelling strongly of honey, is encountered now and then in native beech forests.
But my in-house appetizer of lime-colored watercress risotto had a viscid, swampy texture, which wasn't helped by the three fatty pieces of short rib on top.
Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white.
Note the accumulation of flocculent material and vesicles between the cytoplasm and cell wall and also the osmiophilic margin of the viscid secretion.
Acetylcysteine is indicated as adjuvant therapy for patients with abnormal, viscid, or inspissated mucous secretion.
Bring to the boil once again until there is a viscid consistency.
A history of uterine prolapse or retroversion is often noted in these instances and there may be a yellowish, slimy, viscid.
A thick-walled cyst with viscid semisolid material in the cavity was located and excised.
The small, thick Pleistocene cover is acidic and viscid.
In spite of their large size, apocrine glands secrete only small amounts of a milky, viscid fluid pale gray, whitish, yellow, or reddish which contributes very little to axillary sweat.
The stems and leaves are very sticky and viscid, which may discourage ants and beetles from climbing on the plant.
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The crystalline portion is soluble in alcohol, but the viscid only in ether.
In color it runs from ecru drab to hair-brown with streaks of the latter, and it is very viscid when moist.
He drew off nine quarts of gluey, viscid fluid, and her pain was wholly relieved.
On the 2d, his Fever was almost entirely gone, but he had still a Cough, and spit up a viscid Matter.
The first day it was without spitting, but about the seventh or eighth day much viscid phlegm was spit up.
Urged along by the more fluid lava underneath, this viscid coating takes a ropy or corrugated form.
These glands secrete a viscid juice at the time of anthesis.
A catchfly which is not viscid, with the flowers collected into a tuft.
Mucus is a viscid fluid secreted by the gland-cells, or epithelia.
There is an abnormal secretion of viscid, ropy, turbid mucus.
The stem is soon hollow, two to three inches long, viscid, pallid.
It is only partially soluble in water, forming a viscid mucilage.
The alkali salts have only been obtained as viscid residues.
The result of the process is a viscid fluid, which is then absorbed.
In some the eggs are small or soft, or viscid and adhering in bunches.
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