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gelatinous

Syllables: ge·lat·i·nous/d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/

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Australia/ˈd͡ʒel.ə.tɪn.əs/

gelatinous adjective: jelly-like.

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
    • Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular...
  2. Of or referring to gelatin.

gelatinous meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

gelatinous in Tamil

உறைந்து கெட்டியான, ஊன்பசைபோன்ற, களிபோன்ற

gelatinous in Malayalam

glutinous, jelly-like, viscous
പശിമയും കൊഴുപ്പുമുള്ള, പശയുള്ള, പറ്റുന്ന, മാംസപ്പശ പോലെയുള്ള, കുഴമ്പുപരുവത്തിലുള്ള, ഒട്ടുന്ന

Examples of gelatinous in a sentence

  • Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.
  • A translucent, gelatinous cake made from the starch of a yamlike tuber known as devil's tongue.
  • Hygrophanous pilei, the lack of viscid or gelatinous veils and well-developed cortinas characterize most species.

All 14 example sentences with gelatinous

Synonyms of gelatinous

Antonyms

Forms of gelatinous

comparativemore gelatinous
superlativemost gelatinous
alternative uncommongelatineous
alternative form (archaic)gelatinose

Origin of gelatinous

From gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux.

Words formed from gelatinous

Questions about gelatinous

What does gelatinous mean?
Gelatinous means jelly-like.
What is gelatinous in Tamil?
Gelatinous in Tamil is உறைந்து கெட்டியான, ஊன்பசைபோன்ற, களிபோன்ற. See Gelatinous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gelatinous?
Gelatinous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gelatinous?
Gelatinous is pronounced /d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/ (UK).

Words near gelatinous in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gelatinous (page history and authors); gelatinous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gelatinous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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