viscidity

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In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end—the aid of insects in fertilisation.

From Life of Charles Darwin by Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)

It is a question, apparently, of removing a few atoms of dust or else some traces of viscidity that remain from the evil contact with the snail.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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

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.

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 Eliot, Charles William