viscid
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum ‘birdlime’.
Adjective [edit]
viscid (comparative more viscid, superlative most viscid)
- Viscous; having a high viscosity.
- Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room
- 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.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Furnished Room
- Covered with a viscid layer.
