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Viscid

//ˈvɪsɪd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a high viscosity.
  2. 2
    Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.

    "They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter."

  3. 3
    Covered with a viscid layer.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the sticky properties of an adhesive wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).

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