viscid

• “The nattō strings itself are often described by the Japanese ideophone nebaneba, which roughly translates as 'viscid' or 'gooey'.”

  Anime Nano!

• “Considerably more alarming was a series of photographs of Linder and an American gallerist accomplice covered in a wild array of gloopy, dripping colour; in one image, only the artist's eyes were recognisable, such was the quantity of what seemed to be viscid pigment.”

  The Guardian: Linder, the artist with the hex factor

• “With the ingestion, she trembles, the meal, thawed, invested now by all of him, crumbling, eyes strained wide, blood moving in viscid rivers, her venom coming back to poison her.”

  Fictionaut: Kissing Cobras

• “The hippos, sodden and viscid ... the crocodiles, deaf, angry, hungry ... swambats, as furious as rhinoceri whose size they doubled ...”

  Fictionaut: Wild Dreams of Reality, 5

• “The vague goggling eyes...were cold and merciless in their viscid hatred...”

  Sky Monsters

• “More generally, an association between Larrea, tarbush (Florensia cernua) and viscid acacia (Acacia neovernicosa) dominates the northernmost portion of the desert.”

  Chihuahuan desert

• “The crescent-shaped floor of the caldera teems with a network of smaller volcanic mouths, cones, domes, lava channels, dikes, lavas from light felsic flows to viscid red lavas and black obsidian blocks, ochre plains of sandy alluvial deposits and red and black volcanic ejecta, scoria, lapilli and pumice, from a long series of basaltic effusions.”

  Teide National Park, Spain

• “Tucson is the viscid sump toward which all these rough beasts slink, and apocalypse-specifically the end of the white man's reign in the Americas and the triumphant reclamation by Native Americans of their lands-is the crossbred offspring of all of their mongrelizing enterprises.”

  Newsweek: Reports From The Heartland

• “The stew was barely warm but David started to eat anyway, hoping to forget his troubles for a little while as he shoveled the viscid beef out of the can.”

  Simon & Schuster: Final Theory

• “If is is not boiling rapidly, there is a possibility of the pasta becoming water-logged and viscid.”

  Archive 2008-07-01

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