单词 | gum-like |
释义 | gum-like (once / 844237 pages) adj WORD FAMILY gum: gum-like, gummed, gumming, gummy, gums+/gummed: ungummed/gummy: gummier, gummiest, gummily, gumminess USAGE EXAMPLESIn earlier stages, only the vascular bundles are brown and blocked with gum-like substances. Ward, H. Marshall, Disease in Plants(2012) The raw material, which is an elastic, yellowish, gum-like substance, is sent away to be vulcanized. Piercy, Willis Duff, Great Inventions and Discoveries(2011) The sticky, chewing gum-like plaque is caused by a malfunction which causes the misproduction of a starch-like protein called amyloid. BBC(May 19, 2011) adj resembling chewing gum Syn adhesive tending to adhere |
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