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
If the dark patches be punctured, a quantity of venous and grumous blood exudes; but the wound soon heals.
From The Dog by Dinks
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 James Parkinson
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
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
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