viscid

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈvɪsɪd/

Definition of viscid

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having a high viscosity.
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adj

  1. Having a high viscosity.
  2. Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
    “They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter.”
    “The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump.”
  3. Covered with a viscid layer.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin viscum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Late Latin viscidus English viscid From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).

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