granum

American  

[grey-nuhm] / ˈgreɪ nəm /

noun

• grana
  plural

1. (in prescriptions) a grain.

2. Botany. one of the structural units of a chloroplast in vascular plants, consisting of layers of thylakoids.

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granum Scientific  

/ grā′nəm /

• grana
  plural

1. A stacked membranous structure within the chloroplasts of plants and green algae that contains the chlorophyll and is the site of the light reactions of photosynthesis. The saclike membranes that make up grana are known as thylakoids.

2. See more at chloroplast

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• grana
  plural

Etymology

Origin of granum

From Latin

Example Sentences

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granum grana

‘Grain’ is from Lat. granum, a seed, applied to small objects, and hence to the coccus or cochineal insect which yields a variety of red dyes.

From Milton's Comus by William Bell

From two Latin words, "filum," a thread, and "granum," a grain. otto-of-roses.

From Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

Malted milk, Mellin's food, imperial granum, can be used when the milk cannot be taken.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

I've made her postum cereal coffee and cooked her granum, and I went out and begged dewberries from the Bigelows—she used to be fond of them—and I don't know how many times I've made toast.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet

The word, which is usually derived from the Lat. filum, thread, and granum, grain, is not found in Ducange, and is indeed of modern origin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

And the high-end mozzarella and freckles of grana cheese make this pizza more opulent than your run-of-the-mill pizza shop.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Just like traditional pizza Margherita, TJ's version includes tomato sauce — made from tomatoes, onions, garlic, balsamic vinegar, black pepper and dill — along with sliced mozzarella cheese, grana padano and basil.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2022

An accompanying kale Caesar circumvented excess healthiness with almost as much grana padano as green leafiness, while dinner rolls had hidden troves of buttery pesto.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2020

The fluid enclosed by the inner membrane and surrounding the grana is called the stroma.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

Pasta Cotta Italy The ball or grana of curd used in making Parmesan.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown