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gelatinous (adj.)

"of, pertaining to, or consisting of gelatin; of the nature or consistence of gelatin; resembling jelly," 1724, from gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux. Related: Gelatinously; gelatinousness.

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gelatine (n.)

1713, from French gélatine (17c.) "clear jelly-like substance from animals; fish broth," from Italian gelatina, from gelata "jelly," from gelare "to jell," from Latin gelare "to freeze, congeal" (from PIE root *gel- "cold; to freeze"). With chemical suffix -ine (2). Spelling gelatin is from 1800. "The form without final -e is in scientific (or pseudo-scientific) use only ..." [Fowler].

-ous 
word-forming element making adjectives from nouns, meaning "having, full of, having to do with, doing, inclined to," from Old French -ous, -eux, from Latin -osus (compare -ose (1)). In chemistry, "having a lower valence than forms expressed in -ic."
*gel- 

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "cold; to freeze." 

It forms all or part of: chill; cold; congeal; cool; gel; gelatine; gelatinous; gelato; gelid; glace; glacial; glaciate; glaciation; glacier; glaciology; glacis; jell; jelly.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Latin gelare "to freeze," gelu "frost," glacies "ice;" Old English cald "cold, cool," German kalt.

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Definitions of gelatinous

gelatinous (adj.)
thick like gelatin;
Synonyms: gelatinlike / jellylike
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near gelatinous

geist

gel

*gel-

gelatin

gelatine

gelatinous

gelato

geld

gelding

gelid

geloscopy

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