| 单词 | glutinous |
| 释义 | glutinous (once / 12682 pages) adj When you step in a glutinous substance, some of it will stick to your shoe and stretch as you step up. Glutinous means glue-like, or thick and sticky. The Latin word for glue was gluten, which now the name of a substance found in wheat. Gluten is what makes pizza or bread dough stretchy and gooey, or glutinous. If you're baking a cake, you shouldn't mix it too much or it could become glutinous, or tough. When someone is on a gluten-free diet, it means they cannot eat wheat or other grains that contain gluten. WORD FAMILYglutinous: glutinosity, glutinously, glutinousness, nonglutinous+/gluten: glutens, glutinous USAGE EXAMPLESSo two of the younger roommates cook, emerging an hour later with a glutinous, inedible glop. New York Times(Sep 24, 2016) Technical terms abound, lending a rich and glutinous texture to the talk. The New Yorker(Sep 30, 2016) The Somme ended on Nov. 18, with men drowning in glutinous lakes of clinging mud sometimes five feet deep. Washington Post(Jun 29, 2016) adj having the sticky properties of an adhesive Syn gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous adhesive tending to adhere |
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