viscidity

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It is by some supposed that high colors and viscidity are indications of non-edible species, but there are numerous exceptions here.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, 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 Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The Peruvian bark gatherers adulterate the true cinchona bark with this, but it may be detected by its white inner surface, its less powerful bitter taste, and a viscidity not possessed by the cinchonas.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

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

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 Darwin, Charles