grumous
Americanadjective
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Botany. Also grumose formed of clustered grains or granules.
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having or resembling grume; clotted.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grumousness noun
Etymology
Origin of grumous
Example Sentences
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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
Beneath the pleur� may be seen ecchymoses, hard, fibrous nodules, and yellow elevations, which on being incised furnish grumous pus.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The ventricles were filled with water, and the plexus choroides was considerably enlarged, and stuffed with grumous blood.
From An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by Parkinson, James
It was well that a grumous fog pervaded the air, each atom a spike in a vesicle of darkness! it was well that no summer noon was blazing about the world!
From There & Back by MacDonald, George
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
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