Definition of tenacious

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Tenacious (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.

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Persisting :: Persisting (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
Fast :: Fast (v.) Tenacious; retentive.
Caramel :: Caramel (n.) A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor..
Burdock :: Burdock (n.) A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals..
Iron :: Iron (n.) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.
Brittle :: Brittle (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Lentous :: Lentous (a.) Viscid; viscous; tenacious.
Stiddy :: Sticky (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Adhesive :: Adhesive (a.) Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances..
Calcium :: Calcium (n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca..
Masticin :: Masticin (n.) A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic..
Tenacious :: Tenacious (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Vivacious :: Vivacious (a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
Frail :: Frail (superl) Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
Tough :: Tough (superl.) Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm..
Lute :: Lute (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting..
Wax :: Wax (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow..
Maltha :: Maltha (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor..
Tenacious :: Tenacious (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory..
Cledgy :: Cledgy (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil..
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