Mucilage

Definition: Mucilage

Mucilage

Noun

1. A gelatinous substance secreted by plants.

2. Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.

Date "mucilage" was first used: 1392. (references)

Etymology: Mucilage \Mu"ci*lage\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression mucilago musty juice, from mucus mucus, slime. See Mucus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Mucilage

Synonyms: glue (n), gum (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Semiliquidity	Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mucilage

English words defined with "mucilage": Arabin ♦ Dragantine ♦ Ketmie. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mucilage": TRIUMFETTA LAPPULA. (references)

Etymologies containing "mucilage": Mucilaginous. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mucilage" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (mucilage).

"Mucilage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mucilage" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mucilage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zamkë (gum, size), ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, epidemical, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous). (various references)

Arabic		‏سائل الصمغ, ‏الهلام النباتي. (various references)

Bulgarian		клей (gum, lime, size), лепило (adhesive, glue, gum, paste, size). (various references)

Chinese		粘液 (Mucus). (various references)

Czech		lepidlo (adhesive, glue, gum, paste), klíh. (various references)

Danish		mucilago, slimstof, planteslim. (various references)

Dutch		mucilago, slijmstof, gomslijm. (various references)

Farsi		چسب (Agglutinate, Glue, Gluten, Gum, Lime, Paste), لزوجت گیاه , لعاب (Glaze, Slime), اب لیز. (various references)

Finnish		kasvilima. (various references)

French		mucilage. (various references)

German		schleim (gruel, mucus, phlegm, rheum, slime). (various references)

Greek		κόλλα (adhesive, glue, goo, paste, sheet of paper, size, sizing, starch), κολώδησ ουσία, γλοιόσ (slime), γλοιός, γλίσχρασμα, μύξα (mucus, rheum, slime, snivel, snot). (various references)

Hebrew		ריר�". (various references)

Hungarian		ragasztószer (adhesive, cement, glue, gum, lute), nyálka (mucus, phlegm, rheum, slaver, slime). (various references)

Indonesian		perekat cair, lendir (mucus, plegm), getah (fatex, gland secretion, latex, sap). (various references)

Italian		muco (mucus, phlegm, rheum, slime), mucillagini, mucillagine, mucilagine. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		粘液 (mucus, phlegm, viscous liquid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ね�"えき (annual profit, mucus, phlegm, viscous liquid), ゴ� のり. (various references)

Korean		� �액 (Mucus, slime). (various references)

Manx		gummalaght, gleiy (adhesive, glue, gum). (various references)

Pig Latin		ucilagemay

Portuguese		mucilagem. (various references)

Romanian		mucilagiu (gum), viscozitate (clamminess, ropiness, tack, viscosity). (various references)

Russian		слизь (mucus, slime), клейкое вещество (adhesives). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mucilago, gumarabika (gum arabic). (various references)

Spanish		mucílago. (various references)

Swedish		växtslem. (various references)

Thai		เมือก, น้ำเมือกจากต้นไม้. (various references)

Turkish		zamk (adhesive, cement, glue, gum). (various references)

Ukrainian		склеювати (agglutinate, cement, gum, stick together), слиз (mucus, phlegm, slime), гуміарабік. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mucere. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	mucillago. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mucilage": mucilages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mucilage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Duchlage, Mcglade, Mcileree, Mcilwane, mouclade, Muccioli, mucilag, mucilages, mucillag, mucillage, Muckla, muscidae, musilage, outillage. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mucilage" (pronounced 'Mu"ci*lage'): Assemblage, Billage, Carcelage, Cartilage, Clientelage, Curtilage, fibrocartilage, Fortilage, fuselage, Galage, Persiflage, Plage, Putrilage, Reassemblage, silage, Stillage, Suillage, treillage, tutelage, ullage, Village, Volage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-m-u"
	-2 letters: aculei, aecium, almuce, macule, malice, milage.
	-3 letters: agile, algum, almug, amice, aulic, camel, claim, clime, email, gamic, gimel, glace, gleam, glime, glume, guile, ileac, ileum, image, macle, magic, maile, malic, melic, miaul, ulema, umiac.
	-4 letters: acme, ague, alec, alme, alum, amie, cage, calm, came, caul, ceil, clag, clam, clue, culm, egal, emic, gale.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-l-m-u"
	+1 letter: mucilages.
	+3 letters: demiurgical, glucosamine, multiagency.
	+4 letters: emasculating, glucosamines, museological.
	+5 letters: chemosurgical, cleistogamous, magniloquence, metallurgical, mutagenically, numerological.
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