viscidity
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I have not rejected any by design, merely because they were unnecessary or exuberant, but have received those which by different writers have been differently formed, as viscid, and viscidity, viscous, and viscosity.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
This honey-dew must not be confounded with the normal viscidity of certain insectivorous plants—e.g.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
The viscidity and specific gravity of milk are somewhat greater than that of water; but these properties vary somewhat in the milk procured from different individuals.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
A casting thus treated subsided with surprising slowness, owing as I suppose to its viscidity.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin
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 Sir Francis Darwin
