mucilaginous

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Its leaves are sweet, mucilaginous, and expectorant, being, therefore, highly useful in many pulmonary disorders The common Polypody Fern, or "rheum-purging Polypody" grows plentifully in this country on old walls and stumps of trees, in shady places.

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  1. adjective Resembling mucilage; moist and sticky.
  2. adjective Relating to or secreting mucilage.

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  1. from French muci-lagineux = Spanish Portuguese mucilaginoso = Italian mucellag-ginoso, mucilaginoso, from Late Latin as if *mucilaginosus, from mucilago: see mucilage.
 

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/mjusɪˈlædʒɪnəs/
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