These rewards include pseudopollen, wax or a viscid, resinous material secreted by the labellum and floral nectar. |
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Eccrine sweat glands produce a watery secretion, whereas apocrine secretion is more viscid. |
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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. |
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While the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative. |
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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. |
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During the cementing process, the female places the tip of the abdomen on a surface and begins to exude a viscid fluid. |
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In fetuses, intestinal obstruction may result from the production of viscid meconium. |
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Another technique is to make soup more viscid by adding cold butter to it when it's fully done using a whisk. |
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Occasionally, clear, viscid droplets exude from the petioles, midribs or veins on the lower leaf surfaces of infected plants. |
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This viscid fungus, smelling strongly of honey, is encountered now and then in native beech forests. |
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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. |
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Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white. |
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Note the accumulation of flocculent material and vesicles between the cytoplasm and cell wall and also the osmiophilic margin of the viscid secretion. |
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Acetylcysteine is indicated as adjuvant therapy for patients with abnormal, viscid, or inspissated mucous secretion. |
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Bring to the boil once again until there is a viscid consistency. |
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A history of uterine prolapse or retroversion is often noted in these instances and there may be a yellowish, slimy, viscid. |
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A thick-walled cyst with viscid semisolid material in the cavity was located and excised. |
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The small, thick Pleistocene cover is acidic and viscid. |
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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. |
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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 bats hook themselves into the petals with their thumb claws and stick their slender heads into the flowers, extracting viscid nectar and protein-rich pollen with their tongues. |
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I examined the viscid, gruelly fluid with greatest curiosity, smelt it, and I think tasted it. |
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Bromhexine, a semisynthetic derivative of vasicine, is a mucolytic agent used in the treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma associated with viscid or excessive mucus. |
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A pollinium when highly developed consists of a mass of pollen-grains, affixed to an elastic foot-stalk or caudicle, and this to a little mass of extremely viscid matter. |
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Humphries' fondness for obscure words, such as lacunary, viscid and fuscous, is well indulged here, as is his outrageous, satirical sense of humour. |
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