rubbery

comparative rubberier · superlative rubberiest

1. Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.

   What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.

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   In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.

   1988 April 29, Harold McGee, “Curious Cook; Why the Rubber Chicken Leg Can Bounce Across the Road”, in The New York Times

   If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.

   2020 September 6, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times

   CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.

   2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN