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adhesive
/ədˈhi.sɪv/
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What does adhesive mean?
adjective
- Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
- Apt or tending to adhere; clinging.
noun
- a substance, such as glue, that provides or promotes adhesion
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The grub surrounds itself with a wall of silk, first pure white, then tinted reddish-brown by means of an adhesive varnish.
The glass of the compass got broken one night, and we contrived to mend it with adhesive tape from the medicine-chest.
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Like Actinia, it has a membranous covering, a simple sac-like stomach, a central mouth, a disk surrounded by contractile and adhesive tentacles.
If the soil of one's garden is stiff, cold, adhesive clay, the peach would succeed much better budded or grafted on plum-stocks.
An emetic will clear the fauces, or at least force out a portion of the adhesive matter which is clogging the bronchial tubes.