grumous
Americanadjective
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Botany. Also grumose formed of clustered grains or granules.
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having or resembling grume; clotted.
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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
We have no direct evidence how the embryo is formed, yet no one doubts but that it is brought about by the agency of the boyau, which is a cell containing grumous molecular matter.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
The Bladder of Gall swelled with a black humour: The Kidneys filled with a kind of grumous blood.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
In Ustilago, the minute sooty spores are developed either on delicate threads or in compacted cells, arising first from a sort of semi-gelatinous, grumous stroma.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
In this state, with very little variation, he continued for several days; at one time ostive, and at another discharging small quantities of fæces, mixed with grumous blood.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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