viscoid

adj
/ˈvɪs.kɔɪd/CA/ˈvɪs.koɪd/

Etymology

By surface analysis, visco- + -oid; evidently independently coined several times by several scientists in the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries.

Definitions

  1. Composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose).

  2. Derived from viscose (a liquid made from cellulose).

  3. Describing a type of motion involving the hydrodynamics of viscous fluids intermixing.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Misconstruction of viscous.

    2. A powdered amorphous form of cellulose.

The neighborhood

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