viscidity

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The newborn worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

According to De Candolle, this may depend upon the greater or less amount of water they contain, upon the greater or less viscidity of their fluids, or the rapidity with which these fluids circulate.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir