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grumous

American  
[groo-muhs] / ˈgru məs /

adjective

  1. Botany. Also grumose formed of clustered grains or granules.

  2. having or resembling grume; clotted.


grumous British  
/ ˈɡruːməʊs, ˈɡruːməs /

adjective

  1. (esp of plant parts) consisting of granular tissue

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Etymology

Origin of grumous

1655–65; < Latin grūm ( us ) ( see grume) + -ous

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If the dark patches be punctured, a quantity of venous and grumous blood exudes; but the wound soon heals.

From The Dog by Dinks

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 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 George MacDonald

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

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

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