Skip to main content

glairy

/glair-ee/US // ˈglɛər i //

玻璃,釉面,釉质,釉面的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    glair·i·er, glair·i·est.

    • : of the nature of glair; viscous.
    • : covered with glair.

Examples

  • The fangs are enclosed in a soft, pulpy sheath, the inner surface of which is commonly coated with a thin glairy secretion.

  • There, I unfold it where it is creased, and you see a transparent glairy substance, within which is a round yellowish egg.

  • The edges are raised and indurated; and the discharge is thick, glairy, and peculiarly offensive.

  • These emit long glairy threads, which fasten to the hairs of the flies' legs.

  • These last, however, soon begin to swell, and a thick glairy discharge of simple mucus drains from them in small quantities.