A gelatinous cube is a fictional monster from the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

It is described as a ten-foot cube of transparent gelatinous ooze, which is able to absorb organic matter.

A gelatinous cube looks like a transparent ooze of mindless, gelatinous matter in the shape of a cube.

* In Ultima I a gelatinous cube is commonly encountered in the dungeon levels.

* In the virtual pet game Psypets, the gelatinous cube is one of the many monsters the player's pet can defeat.

* The ASCII-based game Moria features a treasure rich gelatinous cube.

* In one episode of the absurdist comic Bob the Angry Flower the title character's marketing pitch is nearly ruined by a gelatinous cube which repeatedly yells " Cube!

* In the 1992 movie Wayne's World, arcade owner Noah Vanderhoff talks about a fictional game in which a gelatinous cube consumes villagers.

* The Hordes of the Underdark expansion for Neverwinter Nights included an ambush by a gelatinous cube while in the Underdark.

* In the movie Futurama: Bender's Game, while playing D & D Dwight Conrad states that the gelatinous cube dies in horrible poverty.

* Adventure Time featured a gelatinous cube in the episode Dungeon.

* The Genesis mod for Dwarf Fortress adds a gelatinous cube that can be found underground and paralyzes nearby creatures.

* The gelatinous cube in Neverwinter Nights

The egg of an amphibian is typically surrounded by a transparent gelatinous covering secreted by the oviducts and containing mucoproteins and mucopolysaccharides.

Agar or agar-agar is a gelatinous substance derived by boiling from a polysaccharide in red algae, where it accumulates in the cell walls of agarophyte and serves as the primary structural support for the algae's cell walls.

This method is especially useful for separating solids which do not filter well, such as gelatinous or fine particles.

If a Hydra is alarmed or attacked, the tentacles can be retracted to small buds, and the body column itself can be retracted to a small gelatinous sphere.

Treatment of acidic solutions containing Pm < sup > 3 +</ sup > ions with ammonia results in a gelatinous light-brown sediment of hydroxide, Pm ( OH )< sub > 3 </ sub >, which is insoluble in water.

Each mature Volvox colony is composed of numerous flagellate cells similar to Chlamydomonas, up to 50, 000 in total, and embedded in the surface of a hollow sphere or coenobium containing an extracellular matrix made of a gelatinous glycoprotein.

Between ectoderm and endoderm is a supporting layer of structureless gelatinous substance termed mesogloea, secreted by the cell layers of the body wall.

The interior of the sphere is filled with contractile fibrous cells and a gelatinous extracellular matrix.

One hypothesis is that a gelatinous material fills cavities in the sediment, such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified.

This term refers exclusively to the non-polyp life-stage which occurs in many cnidarians, which is typified by a large pulsating gelatinous bell with long trailing tentacles.

The Jellyfish body consist of over 95 % water ; most of their umbrella mass is a gelatinous material — the jelly — called mesoglea which is surrounded by two layers of protective skin.

The meat in a green young coconut is softer and more gelatinous than that in a mature coconut — so much so that it is sometimes known as coconut jelly.

It is gelatinous in texture, and has an extremely strong, pungent odor.

It is also suggested that all their external accoutrements are actually extruded at will from the central gelatinous mass similar to the way the Shoggoth extrude body parts.

Some types of soluble fiber absorb water to become a gelatinous, viscous substance and is fermented by bacteria in the digestive tract.

The fungus typically comprises the majority of a lichen's bulk, though in filamentous and gelatinous lichens this is not always the case.

* Flour-based – This type of halva is slightly gelatinous and made from grain flour, typically semolina.

For example, semolina-based halva is gelatinous and translucent, while sesame-based halva is drier and more crumbly.

However if crabapples are stewed and the pulp is carefully strained and mixed with an equal volume of sugar ( a necessary ingredient for the mix to become gelatinous ) then boiled, their juice can be made into a ruby-coloured crabapple jelly.

To wash, the emulsion is poured into a dish and the solvents are evaporated, until the collodion becomes gelatinous.

A solution of sodium silicate is acidified to produce a gelatinous precipitate that is washed, then dehydrated to produce colorless silica gel.

* Published first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons adventures which included gelatinous cubes as adversaries that the players encounter included " The Ruins of Andril ", published in Dragon # 81.

The cap ( pileus ) of Psilocybe azurescens is 30 – 100 mm in diameter, conic to convex, expanding to broadly convex and eventually flattening with age with a pronounced, persistent broad umbo ; surface smooth, viscous when moist, covered by a separable gelatinous pellicle ; chestnut to ochraceous brown to caramel in color often becoming pitted with dark blue or bluish black zones, hygrophanous, fading to light straw color in drying, strongly bruising blue when damaged ; margin even, sometimes irregular and eroded at maturity, slightly incurved at first, soon decurved, flattening with maturity, translucent striate and often leaving a fibrillose annular zone in the upper regions of the stipe.

Since Odo had not yet learned how to morph into a humanoid appearance, he appeared in his natural gelatinous form.

The head was covered in a dark, gelatinous substance, leading some to accuse Mayne and Carr of perpetrating a hoax using an infant from a medical collection, since some of the mummy appeared to have been preserved in liquid.

In 1977, NASA launched a probe containing four hamsters to destroy a mysterious mass of radioactive, gelatinous substance that was hovering above the atmosphere.

Their texture can likewise be very variable, including fleshy, like charcoal ( carbonaceous ), leathery, rubbery, gelatinous, slimy, powdery, or cob-web-like.

Some lichens have the aspect of leaves ( foliose lichens ); others cover the substrate like a crust ( crustose lichens ) ( illustration, right ), others such as the genus Ramalina adopt shrubby forms ( fruticose lichens ), and there are gelatinous lichens such as the genus Collema.

These may be less liquid than drink-like mustikkakeitto ( Swedish blåbärssoppa ), depending on preparation, but not gelatinous.

* Capsule ( pharmacy ), a small gelatinous case enclosing a dose of medication.

; Ileodictyon: Fruiting bodies are latticed ( clathrate ), and have gelatinous arms that lie sessile within the volva.

Working in Saint Petersburg, Russia to develop a method for supplying alumina to the textile industry ( it was used as a mordant in dyeing cotton ), Bayer discovered in 1887 that the aluminium hydroxide that precipitated from alkaline solution was crystalline and could be easily filtered and washed, while that precipitated from acid medium by neutralization was gelatinous and difficult to wash.

They contain otoliths ( or otoconia ), calcium carbonate stones, which are deposited on a gelatinous membrane that lies over the sensory hair cells.

The American chef and food writer Julia Child, who lived in Marseille for a year, wrote: " to me the telling flavor of bouillabaisse comes from two things: the Provençal soup base — garlic, onions, tomatoes, olive oil, fennel, saffron, thyme, bay, and usually a bit of dried orange peel — and, of course, the fish — lean ( non-oily ), firm-fleshed, soft-fleshed, gelatinous, and shellfish.

( Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate ), gelatinous creature in the film Monsters vs Aliens

Fruit bodies are gelatinous, watery white, up to 7. 5 cm ( 3 ins ) across ( larger in cultivated specimens ), and composed of thin but erect, seaweed-like, branching fronds, often crisped at the edges.

Root-knot nematode females lay eggs into a gelatinous matrix ( GM ), which is produced by six rectal glands and secreted before and during egg laying.