glutinous

Etymology

From Latin glūtinōsus; synchronically analyzable as gluten + -ous.

adj

  1. Glue-like, sticky, viscid.
    Then comes the dinner, a glutinous spread that seems simultaneously generous and disgusting, but no one ever touches the food 1 September 2020, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC
  2. Of the nature of gluten.
  3. Containing gluten.

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