Roz Chast

I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness.

American Cartoonist

Think of the consistency of animal-based or vegan jelly desserts when using 'gelatinous.'

Texture Quality

'Gelatinous' is often used to describe certain types of food textures, not just jelly.

Food Context

In cooking, 'gelatinous' implies a transformation from a liquid to a semi-solid state.

Cooking Process

In nature, 'gelatinous' describes textures similar to gelatin, like certain algae or eggs.

Natural Occurrence

'Gelatinous' can refer to something clear and shimmering, not just the feel of it.

Visual Clarity

'Gelatinous' may describe things that look oddly transparent and squishy, often in biology.

Unusual Appearance

 Remember these particles? Some of them are produced by gelatinous animals called salps. Salps are like superefficient vacuum cleaners, slurping up plankton and producing fast-sinking pellets of poop -- try saying that 10 times fast -- pellets of poop that carry carbon deep into the ocean.

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 these oceans have a hundred and seventy times more living space than all of the world's other environments put together and deep oceans may have more diverse life than a tropical rainforest dancing through the water column is a gelatinous ballet

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 and they're still flourishing as the sea changes around them. Jellyfish are soft-bodied sea creatures that aren't really fish. They're part of a diverse team of gelatinous zooplankton, zooplankton being animals that drift in the ocean.

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 lowering its gas filled sail think you're looking at one organism huh wrong multiple organisms called polyps are all working together to breathe reproduce feed and survive in one gelatinous body these tentacles can stretch up to 50

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 growth and allow for the natural environment to take over imagine giant gelatinous bodies that can nourish and shelter an entire crop of fish their gelatinous walls will accumulate life and become floating ecological reefs the

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 - The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. As part of the nervous system, the brain coordinates all of the body's function. In adult humans, the brain is a three-pound gelatinous mass of fat and protein.

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 kind of like jellyfish or really more of a huge chain of jelly like critters that have formed an alliance unlike jellyfish these gelatinous oddities are coordinates making them related to humans l distantly helps are

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 You're swimming in the ocean when something brushes your leg. When the tingling sets in, you realize you've been stung by a jellyfish. How do these beautiful, gelatinous creatures pack such a painful punch?

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 the order of angler fishes psychedelic a' has a gelatinous body covered with thick folds of skin that protected from sharp edged corals it has a knack for pushing its way into coral crevices for

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 The payoff is huge. Here, your light-sensitive eyes take in a buffet of small crustaceans and gelatinous zooplankton. During the day, phytoplankton use sunlight to turn dissolved carbon dioxide

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