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gelatinous, a.|dʒɪˈlætɪnəs|
[ad. F. gélatineux, f. gélatine: see gelatin.]
1. Having the character or consistency of a jelly; jelly-like.
1724–1800Bailey, Gelatinous, [in Anatomy] any thing that approaches to the consistence of a Jelly. 1766Pennant Zool. (1776) II. 453 The gelatinous substance, known by the name of Star Shot, or Star Gelly. 1767Ellis in Phil. Trans. LVII. 429 Some are stiff and gelatinous, others fleshy and muscular. 1874Cooke Fungi 2 The early condition of the plant is pulpy and gelatinous. 1879Rutley Study Rocks iii. 18 Holes through which the gelatinous occupants can protrude their filamentous processes.
fig.1880E. White Cert. Relig. 85 It is by the infiltration of this solid element that the floating gelatinous soul rises in the scale of being. 1887Spectator 22 Oct. 1407 The gelatinous suggestions to which we are accustomed in Church affairs.
2. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of gelatin.
1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend 64 Gelatinous broths answer the purpose both of food and medicine. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 20 The gelatinous part of the blood. 1843Pereira Food & Diet 212 A gelatinous tissue (that is, a tissue which by boiling is resolved into gelatine). 1873A. Flint Nerv. Syst. i. 25 The true gelatinous nerve-fibres.
3. Comb., as gelatinous-like, gelatinous-looking adjs.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 786/1 A gelatinous-looking membrane. 1849D. Campbell Inorg. Chem. 96 The gelatinous-like solution..is placed on a linen filter.
Hence geˈlatinously adv., geˈlatinousness (in recent Dicts.).
1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 175 The membrane of the parent-cell becoming gelatinously softened. |