ichthyocolla
English
editEtymology
editLatin ichthyocolla, from Ancient Greek ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla, “fish-glue”), from ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
Noun
editichthyocolla (uncountable)
- (archaic) Fish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section VII:
- 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 […].