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subgelatinous

subgelatinous adjective: imperfectly or partially gelatinous.

Adjective

subgelatinous (not comparable)

  1. Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
    • Resupinate, effused, fleshy, subgelatinous when growing, cartilaginous, or rigid and collapsed when dry; […]1891, Grevillea: A Record of Cryptogamic Botany and Its Literature, page 121

Origin of subgelatinous

From sub- + gelatinous.

Questions about subgelatinous

What does subgelatinous mean?
Subgelatinous means imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
What part of speech is subgelatinous?
Subgelatinous is an adjective.

Words near subgelatinous in the dictionary

  1. subgame
  2. subgames
  3. subgap
  4. subgauge
  5. subgaussian
  6. subgelatinous
  7. subgemmal
  8. subgena
  9. subgenal
  10. subgender
  11. subgenders

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