mucilage

How To Use mucilage In A Sentence

• Volvox. Such a colony is often surrounded by mucilage.
• Tinctures, elixirs, sirups, and even mucilages are filtered rapidly. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
• D. (1965) Suspending properties of Plantago ovata seed husk (ispaghula) mucilage. Chapter 5
• Mucilages found in rhizomes, roots and seed endosperms may act primarily as energy reserves whereas foliar mucilages appear not to serve as storage carbohydrates.
• In cacti, relative capacitance of the cladode parenchyma is 1.04 MPa - 1, with large amounts of mucilage-associated solutes which may aid their function as an apoplastic capacitor.
• Mucilage, consisting of polysaccharides containing hexose and pentose sugars and uronic acids, is secreted by root cells as the root grows through the soil.
• This accounts for my glib use of the word mucilage, as well as the titles of other staples. Men, Women, and Boats
• Nevertheless, Jaffrey does offer some great advice for discouraging the mucilage which is really down to the preparation and cooking style you choose. Gastropod: Okra
• Some of the latter are idioblastic and enclose raphides, whereas others are larger and form cavities containing mucilage.
• The mucilage is probably secreted by this apical cell.