mucilage

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mucilage

/ˈmjuː.sɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/ UK
/ˈmju.sɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/ US
/ˈmju.sə.lɪd͡ʒ/ US

Where it comes from

From Middle English muscilage, mussillage, from Middle French mucilage (“viscous substance found in vegetable material”), from Late Latin mūcilāgō (“musty or moldy juice”). See Greek μούχλα (moúchla, “mold”), and related derivatives, for example mushroom, from *meus- (“mosses, mold, mildew”).

noun mucilages

uncountable, usually A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms. Malt liquors […] are distinguished from wine, chiefly by the larger quantity of mucilage and saccharine matter […]
Similar: vegetable mucus

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noun thick gluey substance produced by many plants

Español	mucílago, mucilago
Português	mucilagem
Français	mucilage
Deutsch	Schleimstoff

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@misc{mucilage_2026,
  title = {mucilage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mucilage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}