OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15011

slime

/slaɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cieno • fango • lama • limo • légamo • tarquín
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.
baba • moco
Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
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