mucilage

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Mucilage, also known by the viscerally accurate description of sea snot, is produced naturally by phytoplankton and usually consumed by other marine life, including jellyfish and sea cucumbers.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

"Mucilage owes its nutritive quality to the various substances to which it serves as a vehicle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mucilage of tragacantha, q.s. to make the whole into a stiff paste.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

M. M. Mucilage, as isinglass, hartshorn jelly, gum arabic.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Mucilage isn’t in it with you for sticking to a thing when your mind is once set upon it.”

From The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found by Hill, Grace Brooks