grumous

American  

[groo-muhs] / ˈgru məs /

adjective

1. Botany. Also grumose formed of clustered grains or granules.

2. having or resembling grume; clotted.

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grumous British  

/ ˈɡruːməʊs, ˈɡruːməs /

adjective

1. (esp of plant parts) consisting of granular tissue

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Other Word Forms

• grumousness noun

Etymology

Origin of grumous

1655–65; < Latin grūm ( us ) ( grume ) + -ous

Example Sentences

The present: his famed That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do�a careful study of a mouldering wax funeral wreath on a grumous door.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ulcers forming about the sixth day have a yellowish-white appearance with red points and raised irregular borders, and the discharge is grumous and viscous, with a yellowish or reddish tinge.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It had the appearance of brownish, grumous blood, and was attended with obscure abdominal pains.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The former, when cut into, present one or more loose clots of black blood or a grumous mass of blood-elements, separating the tissues and often mixed with fetid gases.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In those who were cured by these Remedies, he says, Stones, or a kind of a grumous calculous Matter, were always found in the Stools, as the Jaundice was going off.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald