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viscid

adj
/ˈvɪsɪd/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin viscum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Late Latin viscidus English viscid From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).

  1. derived from *-iðos Latin -idus Late Latin viscidus English viscid From Late Latin viscidus✻
  2. derived from viscum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der

Definitions

  1. Having a high viscosity.

  2. Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.

    • The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump.

  3. Covered with a viscid layer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at viscid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01viscid02slimy03daubed04daub05plaster06adhesive07glutinous

A definitional loop anchored at viscid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at viscid

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA