Meanings
- archaicuncountableFish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.
Several others of these drops I covered over with a thin but very tuff skin of Icthyocolla, which being very tough and very transparent, was the most convenient substance for these tryals that I could imagine […].
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section VIISynonyms: ichthyocol
Synonyms & antonyms
nounFish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἰχθυόκολλα“fish-glue”
- Latinichthyocolla
- Englishichthyocolla
From Latin ichthyocolla, from Ancient Greek ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla, “fish-glue”), from ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
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