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gelatinose

gelatinose is the archaic form of gelatinous.

Meaning of gelatinous

Adjective

gelatinous (comparative more gelatinous, superlative most gelatinous)

  1. Jelly-like.
    • In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.1866, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 216
  2. Of or referring to gelatin.

Forms of gelatinose

comparativemore gelatinose
superlativemost gelatinose

Questions about gelatinose

What is gelatinose the archaic form of?
Gelatinose is the archaic form of gelatinous.

Words near gelatinose in the dictionary

  1. gelatinograms
  2. gelatinoid
  3. gelatinoids
  4. gelatinolysis
  5. gelatinolytic
  6. gelatinose
  7. gelatinous
  8. gelatinously
  9. gelatinousness
  10. gelatins
  11. gelation

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