mucilage

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmjuː.sɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmju.sɪ.lɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmju.sə.lɪd͡ʒ/

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mucilage (usually uncountable, plural mucilages)

1. A thick gluey substance (gum) produced by many plants and some microorganisms.

   Synonym: (archaic) vegetable mucus

   • 1821, Friedrich Accum, A Treatise on the Art of Brewing, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, page 5:

     Malt liquors […] are distinguished from wine, chiefly by the larger quantity of mucilage and saccharine matter […]

• mucilaginous

• mucilage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mūcilāgō.

• IPA^(key): /my.si.laʒ/

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mucilage m (usually uncountable, plural mucilages)

1. mucilage

• mucilagineux

• → Turkish: müsilaj

• “mucilage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.