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English
Etymology
From Latin glūtinōsus. By surface analysis, gluten + -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡluːtɪnəs/
- Hyphenation: glu‧ti‧nous
Adjective
glutinous (comparative more glutinous, superlative most glutinous)
- Glue-like, sticky, viscid.
2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC:Then comes the dinner, a glutinous spread that seems simultaneously generous and disgusting, but no one ever touches the food
- Of the nature of gluten.
- Containing gluten.
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Translations
glue-like
- Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav), леплив (bg) (lepliv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tahmea (fi), tarrautuva, puuroutuva (fi) (of rice)
- French: glutineux (fr)
- Galician: pegañento (gl) m
- German: klebrig (de)
- Greek: κολλώδης (el) (kollódis)
- Italian: glutinoso
- Kannada: ಜಿಗಟಾದ (kn) (jigaṭāda), ಅಂಟಾದ (kn) (aṇṭāda), ಅಂಟಂಟಾದ (kn) (aṇṭaṇṭāda), ಅಂಟುವ (kn) (aṇṭuva)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: viscidus
- Ottoman Turkish: یاپشقان (yapışkan)
- Russian: кле́йкий (ru) (kléjkij), ли́пкий (ru) (lípkij)
- Spanish: glutinoso (es), masacotudo (Latin America), mazacotudo (es) (Latin America), masacote (Latin America), mazacote (es)
- Tagalog: malagkit, maligat
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: dính (vi)
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