jelly-like
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Animals in the phylum Ctenophora ("sea-gooseberries" or "comb jellies") are transparent and jelly-like but have no nematocysts, and are harmless to humans.
Fully humified organic matter, on the other hand, has a uniform dark, spongy, jelly-like appearance, and is amorphous.
Raw opium may be sold to a merchant or broker on the black market, but it usually does not travel far from the field before it is refined into morphine base, because pungent, jelly-like raw opium is bulkier and harder to smuggle.
In general, gels are apparently solid, jelly-like materials.
Sponges have no nervous systems, their middle jelly-like layers have large and varied populations of cells, and some types of cells in their outer layers may move into the middle layer and change their functions.
They also secrete the jelly-like mesoglea that separates the layers.