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
Stomach contains dark, grumous matter, and is soft, pale, and brittle.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
If the dark patches be punctured, a quantity of venous and grumous blood exudes; but the wound soon heals.
From The Dog by Dinks
Nay, if those grumous and speckly viscosities of evil green, orange, poppy purple, and nameless hues, are the only things which give us any pleasure?
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon
In Ustilago, the minute sooty spores are developed either on delicate threads or in compacted cells, arising first from a sort of semi-gelatinous, grumous stroma.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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