How To Use Mucilaginous In A Sentence
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When fenugreek seeds are moistened with water they become slightly mucilaginous and hence the tea made from them has the power to dissolve sticky substances such as mucus.
Natural Remedies for Reducing Fever
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You can read sample definitions of okra (containing the word "mucilaginous") at Dictionary. com or Hyperdictionary; there's also one without in the Wikipedia (though the word does appear later on the page in the discussion of how to cook okra).
Interesting Thing of the Day
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This was after the slightly mucilaginous pumpkin soup, which is otherwise charming.
Globe and Mail
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On tracheoscopy the mucosa is thinned, pale and dry, and is covered with patches of thick mucilaginous secretion and crusts.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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And fenugreek is remarkable for its high content of a mucilaginous carbohydrate called galactomannan, which is released simply by soaking the ground seeds.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.
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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Then there's the mistake of cooking them to death, at which point, Joe says, "they would turn into a mucilaginous mush.
Groundwork: Okra time
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My grandmother used to make it and I distinctly remember making my mind up to hate it before I ever tried it based entirely on the word "mucilaginous" which always occured in the same breath as "okra.".
Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan
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Christine -- "mucilaginous" is a disgusting adjective and shouldn't be attached to anything edible.
Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan
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The principle problem to overcome when making strawberry jam is their lack of pectin, which, according to Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course, is a "mucilaginous substance" tasty that rather handily, acts a setting agent.
How to make perfect strawberry jam
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The most common of these, which we observed, were two sorts of liliaceous roots, one simply tunicated, the other granulated upon its surface, called _mahkatte_ and _koohquoppa_, which have a mild sweetish taste, and are mucilaginous, and eaten raw.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
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The fruit is said to be eatable; the leaves cut transversely are applied to tumors as a discutient; the decoction is mucilaginous, and I am informed that it is much used in Alabama as a demulcent drink in pneumonic and pleuritic inflammations.
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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Due to the mucilaginous nature of cactus fruit, tunas are a natural for making a sorbet or ice cream.
Cactus fruit sorbet
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The engineer constructed a press, with which to extract the mucilaginous juice mingled with the fecula, and he obtained a large quantity of flour, which Neb soon transformed into cakes and puddings.
The Mysterious Island
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The root has a styptic bitter taste ; the leaves and flowers are bitter and mucilaginous.
This is what I was trying to photograph at midnight, in the moonlight.
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Harper I drank last night has both intoxicating and mucilaginous properties.
Matt Slade, Esq.--Mascot Defense Attorney
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Algal communities in shallow flowing or static wetlands produce mats or mucilaginous clusters that float in the water but are attached to rocks underneath [57].
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
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(Corchoris olitorius), a mucilaginous spinage common throughout this part of the East.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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From this it will be seen that in this case the raphides did not separate from the mucilaginous juice to be held in suspension in the ether.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.
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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All cyanobacteria are unicellular, though many grow in colonies or filaments, often surrounded by a gelatinous or mucilaginous sheath.
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The roots of the different species are subacid and mucilaginous when fresh; and a decoction of them has been employed as a domestic remedy in sore mouth and in affections of the throat; also considered as alexipharmic in snake bites.
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