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glutinose

glutinose is the alternative form of glutinous.

Meaning of glutinous

Adjective

glutinous (comparative more glutinous, superlative most glutinous)

  1. Glue-like, sticky, viscid.
    • Then comes the dinner, a glutinous spread that seems simultaneously generous and disgusting, but no one ever touches the food2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
  2. Of the nature of gluten.
  3. Containing gluten.

Forms of glutinose

comparativemore glutinose
superlativemost glutinose

Questions about glutinose

What is glutinose the alternative form of?
Glutinose is the alternative form of glutinous.

Words near glutinose in the dictionary

  1. glutination
  2. glutinations
  3. glutinative
  4. glutinoid
  5. glutinoids
  6. glutinose
  7. glutinosity
  8. glutinous
  9. glutinous hag
  10. glutinous hags
  11. glutinous rice

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