1 July 2015

viscid

[vis-id]

adjective
1. having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous.
2. Botany. covered by a sticky substance.
Origin of viscid Expand

Late Latin
1625-1635; < Late Latin viscidus, equivalent to Latin visc (um) mistletoe, birdlime made from mistletoe + -idus -id4; see viscous

Related forms
viscidity, viscidness, noun
viscidly, adverb
nonviscid, adjective
nonviscidly, adverb
nonviscidness, noun

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Today’s quote

There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the Earth as though it were a business in liquidation.

– Herman E. Daly

On this day

1 July 1862 – founding of the Russian State Library in Moscow. It is the fourth largest library in the world. It has 275km of shelves, 17.5 million books, 13 million journals, 350,000 music scores and sound records, 150,000 maps.

1 July 1921 – founding of the Communist Party of China.

1 July 1943 – Tokyo City is officially dissolved following its merger with the Tokyo Prefecture. Since then no Japanese city has been named Tokyo. Modern-day Tokyo is not officially a city, instead it is a prefecture consisting of 23 wards, 26 cities, five towns and eight villages.

1 July 1961 – birth of Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales. Died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.

1 July 1963 – ZIP codes introduced for United States mail.

1 July 1978 – Australia’s Northern Territory is granted self-government.

1 July 2002 – establishment of the International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war-crimes and the crime of aggression.