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glutinaceous

glutinaceous adjective: synonym of glutinous.

Adjective

glutinaceous (comparative more glutinaceous, superlative most glutinaceous)

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of glutinous.
    • The glutinaceous substance of wafers, to say nothing of the colours, if much be eaten, may occasion dangerous stoppages in the intestines.[1808], “Art of making Wafers”, in The Family Receipt-Book; or, Universal Repository of Useful Knowledge and Experience in All the Various Branches of Domestic Œconomy. […], London: […] [F]or the...
    • On cooking, the real glutinaceous macaroni swells up to more than double its original thickness without becoming at all pasty or falling apart, so that the fact of its preserving its tubular form is one of the best proofs of its excellence.1878, H., “[Practical Chemistry and the Arts.] Macaroni.”, in James R[obinson] Nichols, W[illiam] J[ames] Rolfe, editors, The Boston Journal of Chemistry. […], volume XII, Boston, Mass.: Journal of...
    Synonyms:
    glutinous

Examples of glutinaceous in a sentence

  • We also knew that the protein of the soybean was not glutinaceous, as wheat was, but milk was used in bread and the protein of milk was not glutinaceous.1942 November, A. A. Levinson, “Soybean Products in Food Manutacture”, in Geo[rge] M[artin] Strayer, Kent Pellett, editors, The Soybean...
  • In the black-earth lands of the Deccan the rains turn the soil into a glutinaceous mass and repair work is made most difficult at the time it is most needed.1956, Andrew C[harles] O’Dell, Railways and Geography, London: Hutchinson’s University Library, page 57:
  • “Looks to me like you have a serious case of hyper-glutinaceous-gastro phobia.1969 July 12, “‘Hmmm, Nurse, This Looks Serious’”, in San Francisco Examiner, 105th year, number 26, San Francisco, Calif., page 5:
  • There is no evidence from chemical analyses that cereal grain is less suitable than the Polygonum seed, although it is larger and more glutinaceous.1970 December, G[eorge] R[ichard] Potts, “Studies on the Changing Role of Weeds of the Genus Polygonum in the Diet of the Partridge Perdix...

Synonyms of glutinaceous

Forms of glutinaceous

comparativemore glutinaceous
superlativemost glutinaceous

Origin of glutinaceous

From Latin glūtin-, stem of glūten, + -aceous.

Questions about glutinaceous

What does glutinaceous mean?
Glutinaceous means synonym of glutinous.
How do you use glutinaceous in a sentence?
We also knew that the protein of the soybean was not glutinaceous, as wheat was, but milk was used in bread and the protein of milk was not glutinaceous.
What part of speech is glutinaceous?
Glutinaceous is an adjective.

Words near glutinaceous in the dictionary

  1. gluteuses
  2. Gluth
  3. gluthatione
  4. Gluths
  5. glutin
  6. glutinaceous
  7. glutinane
  8. glutinanes
  9. glutinate
  10. glutinated
  11. glutinates

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