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adj
Composed of viscoid (a powered amorphous form of cellulose).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
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adj
Derived from viscose (a liquid made from cellulose).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
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adj
Describing a type of motion involving the hydrodynamics of viscous fluids intermixing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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adj
Misconstruction of viscous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable
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noun
A powdered amorphous form of cellulose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable, usually
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Broader terms: cellulose, polysaccharide, substance, material
History
By surface analysis, visco- + -oid; evidently independently coined several times by several scientists in the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries.
