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If something is gelatinous, it sits in a state between solid and liquid, like a gel or like jelly: it can hold a shape, but if you press it, it wobbles, slides, or sags. We use it for food (a thick soup that has cooled, a dessert) and also for textures people do not like — a gelatinous blob in a pond, or tissue in a science class. It is a slightly formal, slightly science-y adjective. In casual talk people more often say “like jelly” or “gummy”.
膠狀的、果凍狀的
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gelatinousadj/d͡ʒəˈlæt.ɪn.əs/
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Jelly-like.
- In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.
- Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
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Of or referring to gelatin.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。