How To Use Mucilage In A Sentence
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Volvox. Such a colony is often surrounded by mucilage.
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Tinctures, elixirs, sirups, and even mucilages are filtered rapidly.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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D. (1965) Suspending properties of Plantago ovata seed husk (ispaghula) mucilage.
Chapter 5
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Mucilages found in rhizomes, roots and seed endosperms may act primarily as energy reserves whereas foliar mucilages appear not to serve as storage carbohydrates.
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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.
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Mucilage, consisting of polysaccharides containing hexose and pentose sugars and uronic acids, is secreted by root cells as the root grows through the soil.
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This accounts for my glib use of the word mucilage, as well as the titles of other staples.
Men, Women, and Boats
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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
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Some of the latter are idioblastic and enclose raphides, whereas others are larger and form cavities containing mucilage.
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The mucilage is probably secreted by this apical cell.
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From these experiments the absence of acridity in these two plants, in spite of the abundance of raphides, may readily be explained by the fact that the minute crystals are surrounded with and embedded in an insoluble mucilage, which prevents their free movement into the tongue and surface of the mouth, when portions of the plants are tasted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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It will thus be a very useful new tool in, for example, investigations of the effects of changing environmental conditions on the metabolism of mucilage and other polysaccharides.
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Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
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Polysaccharide hydrocolloids including mucilages, gums and glucans are abundant in nature and are commonly found in many higher plants.
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Coltsfoot combines an expectorant action with a soothing, healing quality thought to be due to its high mucilage content.
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_ -- This substance is largely imported from America, where it is produced from the dark-coloured residue, termed mucilage, obtained from the refining of crude cotton-seed oil.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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The mucilage sap of narcissi can adversely affect other flowers by clogging their water-uptake channels.
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This folk remedy has not been well studied, but it appears to work because it contains mucilage, sugar molecules that soothe inflamed membranes.
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Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
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The root cap covers the root tip and secrets mucilage which facilitates the movement of the growing roots in the soil.
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The fresh juice supplying 30 percent potassium and the mucilage a good amount of niter and sodium.
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Fixed air, or carbonic acid gas, consists of about twenty-five parts of oxygen, and nine of carbon, devested of the mucilage and yest that rises with it.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
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With HotKeys, you can pretty much keep on working even if a fun-loving but unscrupulous co-worker puts mucilage in your mouse.
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Because If I see you even take one step out of that chair, I'm going to hog-tie you and gag you, but not before I clamp your jaws shut with mucilage!
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You have to be of a certain age to remember when every household had one or more bottles of mucilage to stick stamps to envelopes.
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Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
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She briskly eviscerated the bird, whose entrails still gleamed in a heap of mucilage beside the fire.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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The lancet is the anchor of hope in this disease; which must be repeated four or five times, or as often as the fever and difficulty of breathing increase, which is generally in the evening; antimonials, diluents, repeated small blisters about the chest, mucilage, pediluvium, warm bath.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Sassafras leaves contain not only sassafras flavour but also a gummy mucilage.
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It contains resin and mucilage, in addition to saponin, which is its leading principle, and by virtue of which decoctions of the root produce a soapy froth.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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What's called the mucilage, which is the sort of fruity part, which, by the way, tastes rather sweet if you chew it, that has to come off.
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World
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The root contains mucilage, which is used in China for sizing paper.
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Mucilage one ounce; triturate it with Levigated Indigo and Lamp Black q.s. to give it a good color.
One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
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In Papua New Guinea pods too fibrous to eat whole are often steamed in oil drums or the "mumu" pit, or baked in open fires; the seeds and mucilage are then scraped out and eaten.
3 Food Use and Nutritive Value
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White Poppy capsules, when dried, furnish papaverine and narcotine, with some mucilage, and a little waxy matter.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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They are rich in a mucilage, which on hydrolysis yields eight sugars, the pre dominant ones being d-galactose and l-arabinose in the ratio 8: 1.
Chapter 32
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_Mucilage_, or _bassorin_, is simply a modified form of gum, which, though insoluble in water, forms a gelatinous mixture with that fluid.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
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Dietary fibre consists of plant material such as cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, polysaccharides, gums, mucilage and lignin.
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This is probably owing principally to the mucilage contained in the bran, which runs into the acetous fermentation sooner than starch.
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The mucilages are a very useful group of substances, being in most cases both demulcent and nutritive.
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Marshmallow contains large sugar molecules called mucilage, which are thought to exert a soothing effect on mucous membranes, and this is the basis of most proposed uses of the herb.
Wil's Ebay E-Store
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The name originally applied to a mucilage extracted from a red seaweed of the genus Eucheuma.
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He keeps it in a strongbox in his desk, along with stamps with no mucilage.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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The fresh juice supplying 30 percent potassium and the mucilage a good amount of niter and sodium.
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The Carbohydrates comprise starch, sugar, gum, mucilage, pectose, glycogen, &c.; cellulose and woody fibre are carbohydrates, but are little capable of digestion.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
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I have never had a problem with the okra 'mucilage', but I know some people are completely appalled by it.
Gastropod: Okra
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MITHAL, B.M. and BHUTIANI, B.R. (1969) Binding properties of Plantago ovate (ispaghula) seed husk mucilage.
Chapter 5
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The residue or "foots" produced during the refining of crude cotton-seed oil, known in the trade as "mucilage," may be converted into
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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Acid hydrolysis of crude leaf mucilage extract in both Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundifolia revealed that the main sugar constituents were rhamnose, glucose, galactose, and arabinose.
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It is particularly by the mucilage, which is found in greater or less quantity in all vegetables, that the purity of oil is affected.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Objective To evaluate the effects of meglumine diatrizoate mucilage ( MDC ) used as contrast medium in bronchography.
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Like other members of the family it contains saponins, mucilage, carbohydrate including dextrin, glucose, saccharose, moisture, ash and 32.7% cellulose and lignin.
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Additional mucilage is secreted by rhizosphere microbes.
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They say that things are on the way out when you produce volumes of clear mucilage.
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It has also been suggested that it reduces soil mechanical impedance by means of its secretion of slimy mucilage and by the sloughing of border cells.
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No doubt the nutritious quality of the tree is owing to the mucilage, which is apparently of the same nature as that of the nearly allied Tragacanth tree of Sierra Leone
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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True yams look like a hairy log of firewood and are all gucky and mucilagenous when you slice them.
Yams and Fertility
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The mucilage from the bark of this American elm has wonderfully strengthening and healing qualities.
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Mrs. Williams also brought a pair of blunt-edged scissors, and some mucilage - a thick, brownish liquid that oozed out through a slit in the rubber-slanted cover when you pressed on it just right.
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Mucilage, camphor, and oil may be taken to neutralize cantharides: -- CANTHARIDES ... hair-grower ... _oil_ ... smooth-running
Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
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The highest apetalous plants contain camphors and oils; the highest of the monocotyledons contain a mucilage and oils; and the highest dicotyledons contain oils and special acids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
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These cells disperse into mucilage, which can attract or repel certain microorganisms within the immediate surroundings of the root.
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Do not place tulips in containers with any flowers in the Narcissus genus (paperwhites, daffodils, etc.) which have just been cut, as the mucilage they exude can adversely affect tulips' vase life.
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Didn't we (and by that I mean anyone over 50) used to use mucilage in grade school art class?
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The procedure was repeated several times in order to remove the large amount of mucilage present in jute bark.
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Also make an emulsion of eight drops of ottar of roses with thirty grains of gum arabic and eight fluid ounces of water; then add three fluid ounces of glycerine, and ten fluid drachms of quince mucilage.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
