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adj. - Thick like a colloidal protein used as a food, in photography, and in medicine.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Her tiny transparent feet, covered in gelatinous skin, look like those of some aquatic creature.
  • Whatever their substance may have been, it is described as gelatinous -- "soapy and jellied."
  • This post is getting covered in gelatinous goo.
  • It was slippery, Bennett said, much more "gelatinous" than his previous squid quarry.
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