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Beggar's ticks
unknown · 78% connection
The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenaci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Calendula
noun · 78% connection
A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Caoutchouc
noun · 78% connection
A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cerasin
noun · 78% connection
A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cicutoxin
noun · 78% connection
The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Convolvulin
noun · 78% connection
A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cowslip
noun · 78% connection
In the United States, the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cuminil
n . · 78% connection
A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Cydonin
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Demulcent
noun · 78% connection
A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Dextrin
noun · 78% connection
A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Emulsion
noun · 78% connection
Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Gentisin
noun · 78% connection
A tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Golding
noun · 78% connection
A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Goolde
noun · 78% connection
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Hydrogen
noun · 78% connection
A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.
Indigo
noun · 78% connection
A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: gummy, mucilaginous, tasteless, substance, obtained.