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A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algæ and other plants.

genous acid of the alloxan group, obtained as a honey-yellow powder. Its solutions have a gelatinous consistency.

A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

A gelatinous modification of pectin.

rdinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass. [R.] H. Spencer.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.

A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteïne.

The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

y, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid. Silicic acid (Chem.), an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si(HO)4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.

of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

ack of some fungus. Maunder (Treas. of Bot.) -- Witches' butter (Bot.), a name of several gelatinous cryptogamous plants, as Nostoc commune, and Exidia glandulosa. See Nostoc. -- Witch grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle. -- W…

A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoögloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.