grumous
Americanadjective
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Botany. Also grumose formed of clustered grains or granules.
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having or resembling grume; clotted.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- grumousness noun
Etymology
Origin of grumous
Example Sentences
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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
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
If the dark patches be punctured, a quantity of venous and grumous blood exudes; but the wound soon heals.
From The Dog by Dinks
With the formation of pus the skin becomes soft and boggy at several points, and eventually breaks, giving exit to a quantity of thick grumous discharge.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
In those who were cured by these Remedies, he says, Stones, or a kind of a grumous calculous Matter, were always found in the Stools, as the Jaundice was going off.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald
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