Mucilaginous:

Substances characterized by a gelatinous consistency.

Mucilaginous: strings of slime are soluble in water, but not in alcohol. You can drown them in tea, but they can swim in your beer.

....Which is as may be. But I just like saying mucilaginous.

Don't take my word for it.

What others have had to say:

• What a lovely word! I must endeavor to use it at least once today, correctly, in a complete sentence! As I have an aloe, this shouldn't be too terribly difficult. (Gw7en)

• Aloe Vera, when said with a North of England accent, sounds identical to 'Hello Vera'. I keep thinking this is a beauty product produced by an ex-star of Coronation Street. I am fairly certain that the advert would not use the word mucilaginous, however; that definately requires a smug Oxbridge accent to acquire the full effect. (Munchkin)

• Some African tribes lick toads. I wonder, would that count as a mucilaginous compound as well? (Gw7en)

• Every once in a while, the children in Canada, bless their hearts, take it into their heads to lick cane toads, in the belief that something good will come it... mystical mucilage. (Me)

• What do you call various gelatinous substances? Miscellaneous Mucilagines. (President of HeadSnotInc.)

• That's a phrase too lovely to reserve for gelatinous stuff. It deserves to be ladled around with abandon... at kids in the street, co-workers, stray dogs. It drips off the tongue like a raw egg. (Me again)

• We have so many derogatory words for mucilage: slime, goo, yuck, etc. But in this thread we've only encountered the goo sides of mucilage. Maybe there's more to the muck... (President of HeadSnotInc.)

• Eggs-actly! The yolks on us for forgetting albumen. And let us remember the pinnacle of mucilaginous confection: Gravy. (Me again)

• Gggrrraaaayyyyyyvvvvyyyy.....
  (President of HeadSnotInc.)

• Mucilaginous? Don't mucus about, get a dictionary, while I slip off to get a life.

  [Meanwhile, back at the ceilidh...]

  Nae luck, couldn't find a life, so I might as well talk to myself.

  See thae Mucous Membranes, Jimmy? Snot often ah say this, but they get right up ma nose.

  Aye Elsa. While wirr oanra subjick, did ye hear aboot yon scientist 'n' part-time DJ it ra Plaza, MC Einstein? He goat slung oot ra dancin' fur playin' Kurnul Bogey awratime.

  Naw Jimmy, ah didnae hear. Whit happened?

  Wanna rae big apes oanra door goat sicka ra tune 'n' threw him oot.

  Ye mean ra bouncer hid tae muscle a genius? (Wumbeevil)

More about Mucilage

In North America, the smart set are obsessed with the regularity - among other qualities lost on someone like me - of their bowel movements. It seems that the mantras of 'fibre', 'grain', 'roughage', and such are no longer magical enough to do the trick; so they are turning to the power of mucilage to keep themselves productive.

A slippery fish, the Loach produces a mucilaginous secretion that is said to be anti-bacterial and anti-inflamatory.

Don't abrade your mucous membranes; but if you do, a soothing mucilage made from the inner bark of the slippery elm will set you straight.