It felt like "a wet, jellylike bag of hyperactive worms".
But now, in what are (barring a miracle) my last weeks of life — so queasy that I am averse to almost every food, with difficulty swallowing anything except liquids or jellylike solids — I have rediscovered the joys of gefilte fish.
An inventive appetizer called Chicken & Egg gives a sense of the range: a rectangular skillet lined with injera and loaded with heavily spiced pulled chicken is topped with a gently poached egg, mango chutney beaded with chunks of cottage cheese, and chicken liver seared so lightly as to be jellylike.
The match began as green (Princeton) and beige (Tsinghua) drones, fluttering triangles with tails, and jellylike spawning pools, started filling up the screen.
The nests are dry when harvested, but turn jellylike in the soup, which is usually sprinkled with rock sugar.
The jellylike plankton are numerous and predatory.
Between these is sandwiched the mesoglea, a largely noncellular layer composed of a jellylike material permeated by a complex network of supporting fibres that may be microscopically thin or very thick.
A gel may be notably elastic and jellylike (as gelatin or fruit jelly), or quite solid and rigid (as silica gel, a material that looks like coarse white sand and is used as a dehumidifier).
Energy from the Sun relentlessly bombarded the surface of the primitive Earth, and in time millions of years chemical and physical actions produced the first evidence of life: formless, jellylike blobs that could collect energy from the environment and produce more of their own kind.
Its cytoplasm (the living substance surrounding the nucleus) is divided into two parts: a peripheral layer, or ectoplasm, of gel (a semisolid, jellylike substance) enclosing an inner mass, or endoplasm, of sol (a fluid containing suspended particles; i.e., a colloid).
The mole, a collection of sacs (cysts) containing a jellylike substance, resembles clusters of grapes and can attain a great size.
