mucilaginous

• “Christine -- "mucilaginous" is a disgusting adjective and shouldn't be attached to anything edible.”

  Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan

• “My grandmother used to make it and I distinctly remember making my mind up to hate it before I ever tried it based entirely on the word "mucilaginous" which always occured in the same breath as "okra.".”

  Lunch ladies and fried okra | Homesick Texan

• “You can read sample definitions of okra (containing the word "mucilaginous") at Dictionary. com or Hyperdictionary; there's also one without in the Wikipedia (though the word does appear later on the page in the discussion of how to cook okra).”

  Interesting Thing of the Day

• “Harper I drank last night has both intoxicating and mucilaginous properties.”

  Fictionaut: Matt Slade, Esq.--Mascot Defense Attorney

• “The principle problem to overcome when making strawberry jam is their lack of pectin, which, according to Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course, is a "mucilaginous substance" tasty that rather handily, acts a setting agent.”

  The Guardian: How to make perfect strawberry jam

• “Due to the mucilaginous nature of cactus fruit, tunas are a natural for making a sorbet or ice cream.”

  Cactus fruit sorbet

• “Then there's the mistake of cooking them to death, at which point, Joe says, "they would turn into a mucilaginous mush.”

  The Washington Post: Groundwork: Okra time

• “When fenugreek seeds are moistened with water they become slightly mucilaginous and hence the tea made from them has the power to dissolve sticky substances such as mucus.”

  Natural Remedies for Reducing Fever

• “Algal communities in shallow flowing or static wetlands produce mats or mucilaginous clusters that float in the water but are attached to rocks underneath [57].”

  Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic

• “The root has a styptic bitter taste ; the leaves and flowers are bitter and mucilaginous.”

  This is what I was trying to photograph at midnight, in the moonlight.

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