ichthyocolla means fish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin ichthyocolla, from Ancient Greek ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla, “fish-glue”), from ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + κόλλα (kólla, “glue”).
noun
- Fish glue, isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds (swimming bladders) of various fishes.“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 […].”