inviscate
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.
— […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.
词源
From Latin inviscatus, past participle of inviscare (“to birdlime”), from in- (“in”) + viscum, viscus (“mistletoe, birdlime”).
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