mucilage

Other forms of mucilage

plural

mucilages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mucilage

What does mucilage mean?

mucilage means "a gelatinous substance secreted by plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mucilage?

mucilage has 3 syllables: mu-ci-lage. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mucilage?

Close synonyms include glue, gum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mucilage a common word?

mucilage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.