In Latin it means a "slimy liquid, poison offensive odour or taste", and it first appears in the medical literature in the 18th century to describe a poisonous fluid.

THE driver pulled his tank truck into the deserted park, backed to the edge of the river and opened a spigot at the rear of the vehicle to unleash a stream of slimy green liquid.

As the flower heads mature, they gradually fill with an aromatic, slimy liquid and turn a brighter red color.

You'll be served a green, slimy liquid.

ANOTHER ROOM - THE CATACOMBS as INDY falls through the hole in the wall onto rocks surrounded by bubbling, green, slimy liquid.

The slimy liquid on the body of a new born infant.

Her dying eyes stared into the slimy liquid she continued to cough up in bursts, the nauseating smell making her feel light-headed, dizzy.

Through the thick, slimy liquid he could see the glimmer of the control panel's tiny lights, a faint row of green.

His madly slashing saber sheared through it again and again, his ripping poniard tore and rent it; he was deluged with a slimy liquid that must have been its sluggish blood.

Its hydrosphere, while it does contain some water, is a poisonous, stinking, foully corrosive, slimy and sludgy liquid.