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 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 Henry Oldenburg
He loathed his land's divergent parties, loth To grant them speech, they were such idle troops; The friable and the grumous, dizzards both.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
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 Edward Pollock Anshutz
Stomach may contain dark grumous fluid, and its mucous coat presents the appearance of crimson velvet.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
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 William Griffith
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