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stramineous

[struh-min-ee-uh s]
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adjective

of or resembling straw.
straw-colored; yellowish.

RELATED WORDS

blond, pale, fair, straw, light, champagne, sallow, platinum, albino, strawberry, snowy, washed-out, fair-haired, towheaded, flaxen

Nearby words

  1. straits dollar,
  2. straits settlements,
  3. strake,
  4. stralsund,
  5. stramash,
  6. stramonium,
  7. strand,
  8. strand line,
  9. strand wolf,
  10. strand, mark

Origin of stramineous

1615–25; < Latin strāmineus of straw, equivalent to strāmin- (stem of strāmen straw; akin to stratum) + -eus -eous
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