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Definition of Gelatinous
1. Adjective. Thick like gelatin.
Similar to: Thick
Derivative terms: Gelatin, Gelatine, Gelatinousness
Definition of Gelatinous
1. a. Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
Definition of Gelatinous
1. Adjective. jelly-like ¹
2. Adjective. of or referring to gelatin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gelatinous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Gelatinous
1. 1. Pertaining to or characteristic of gelatin. 2. Jelly-like or resembling gelatin. Synonym: gelatinoid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gelatinous
Literary usage of Gelatinous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"In this case we have the gelatinous precipitate and a supernatant liquid. If we
add caustic potash in excess to a chromic sulphate solution, ..."
2. A Treatise on Food and Diet: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen by Jonathan Pereira (1843)
"And though it is probable that, in the animal system, gelatinous tissues are
formed out of proteine compounds, chemists have hitherto totally failed to ..."
3. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1867)
"The fibrous nervous matter consists of two different kinds of nerve fibres, which
are distinguished as the tubular fibre and the gelatinous fibre. ..."
4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1805)
"... gelatinous. Leaves dilated upwards, plaited, lobed and crenate. ... and are
from a quarter of an inch to nearly an inch high, very gelatinous, ..."
5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"In this green variety more usually, also, a number of animalcules congregated
together and assisted in the fabrication of the common gelatinous matrix. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"gelatinous softening of t-ke stomach in children. ... The ideas of John Hunter
on gelatinous softening of the stomach in adults, are not applicable to the ..."
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