Christine -- "mucilaginous" is a disgusting adjective and shouldn't be attached to anything edible. From Wordnik.com. [Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan] Reference
Its leaves are mucilaginous and are said to impart. From Wordnik.com. [Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs] Reference
The fruit is mucilaginous, somewhat tart and saccharine. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Sulphate and carbonate of magnesium, mucilaginous drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
In taste, the leaves are harsh, bitter, and mucilaginous. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The root or rhizome has a mucilaginous slightly bitter taste. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It contains only the mucilaginous substance already acidulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
The taste of the decoction is bland, mucilaginous, and cordial. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The expressed juice was not limpid, but thick, mucilaginous and ropy. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
The sweet, subacid, mucilaginous juice is much esteemed as a pectoral. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
These, like flaxseed, emit a mucilaginous substance when soaked in water. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
If this is impossible, a gruel of barley, oats or mucilaginous rice-water. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
These are mucilaginous when unbroken, and afford the taste of bitter almonds. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Practically none of them had been removed from the insoluble mucilaginous covering. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
It has a slightly sweet mucilaginous taste, with a faint smell like that of a mushroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
I attributed the principle of the spirituous fermentation to the mucilaginous substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain] Reference
The antheridia open by means of a cap cell or groups of cells with mucilaginous contents. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The succulent covering of the fruit is soft and slimy, mawkishly sweet, and mucilaginous. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The juice of the latter was clear and limpid; that of the former quite thick and mucilaginous. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Give magnesia, chalk, whiting, or even flour in water, and follow with mucilaginous drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
By their different mucilaginous principles they produce the following various salutary effects. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
The ribbons having been produced, the fiber in them has to be freed from the mucilaginous secretions. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference
"The sweet, mucilaginous juice extracted from the roots by boiling is much esteemed as an emollient in colds.". From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Its leaves are sweet, mucilaginous, and expectorant, being, therefore, highly useful in many pulmonary disorders. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
It has a large woody fruit, containing a mucilaginous pulp, with a pleasant cool taste, in which the seeds are buried. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Then there's the mistake of cooking them to death, at which point, Joe says, "they would turn into a mucilaginous mush.". From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Okra time] Reference
Most of them are characterized also by the development of great quantities of a mucilaginous matter within their tissues. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
The root is sweet and very mucilaginous when chewed, containing more than half its weight of saccharine viscous mucilage. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Trigonella foenum-graecum; Plant of the legume family, cultivated for forage and for its mucilaginous seeds used in medicine. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
In its crude state cotton-seed oil is a dark fluid containing mucilaginous and colouring matter, and is not applicable for soap-making. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
It is of a mucilaginous, or gummy, consistency, and if it is not properly cooked it becomes very slimy and is then decidedly unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference
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