Synonyms:
gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike
Meaning: thick like gelatin
Usage examples
It was a gelatinous fungus.
Or that, far up, or far away, the whole sky is gelatinous?
They returned next morning and found a gelatinous mass of grayish color.
I shall have to accept, myself, that gelatinous substance has often fallen from the sky--
That, according to a newspaper, of Newark, N.J., a mass of gelatinous substance, like soft soap, had been found.
When we come to reported falls of gelatinous substances, I'd like it to be noticed how often they are described as whitish or grayish.
I think, myself, that it would be absurd to say that the whole sky is gelatinous: it seems more acceptable that only certain areas are.
That, in Wilna, Lithuania, April 4, 1846, in a rainstorm, fell nut-sized masses of a substance that is described as both resinous and gelatinous.
"The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them."
It would seem acceptable that, if many reports of white birds should occur, the birds are not blackbirds, even though there have been white blackbirds. Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.