📚 Viscid, adjective. 🔉 /ˈvɪsɪd/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Having a glutinous or sticky consistency. ❗️ Examples: 1. The viscid mucus lining of the intestine. 2. It is not difficult to imagine that once pleural fluid has turned into frank pus, which is viscid and sticky, that simply removing loculations will not necessarily lead to efficient drainage. 3. The development of sticky viscid silk is thought to be an important evolutionary innovation as that silk is more effective at snagging passing insects than the non-sticky variety. 4. Phlegm is motionless, viscid, sticky, heavy, inert, cold, soft, and white. 5. Finally, a variety of invertebrates secrete viscid secretions as part of a reported ‘duo-gland’ adhesion. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic