inviscate

verb

1. To daub, catch, or entangle with glue or birdlime or other viscous matter.

   obsolete, transitive

   […] withall its food being flies and such as suddenly escape, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slymy extremity, whereby upon a sudden emission it inviscates and tangleth those insects.

Where it comes from

From Latin inviscatus, past participle of inviscare (“to birdlime”), from in- (“in”) + viscum, viscus (“mistletoe, birdlime”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry inviscate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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