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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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
In the tappings done at the end of a week or more a dark porter-like fluid was common, while when suppuration was imminent a brick-red-coloured grumous fluid replaced normal blood.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
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
The Diarrhœa continued; his stools were involuntary; and he discharged in this way a quantity of black, grumous, and fœtid blood.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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
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