stramineous
Americanadjective
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of or resembling straw.
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straw-colored; yellowish.
Etymology
Origin of stramineous
1615–25; < Latin strāmineus of straw, equivalent to strāmin- (stem of strāmen straw; akin to stratum ) + -eus -eous
Example Sentences
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Taller and mostly stouter than the type; pistillate spikes one or two, often staminate at top, yellow or stramineous; perigynium longer, gradually produced into a conspicuous and more or less toothed beak, prominently few-nerved, yellow, broader and usually longer than the blunt scale.
From Project Gutenberg
Description.—Above brownish olive; head black, mixed with white and surmounted by narrow elongated black crest-feathers; wings blackish, outer web of external rectrix whitish; beneath pale stramineous, throat and breast white, densely striated with black; under wing-coverts white; bill yellowish, with a black tip; feet black: whole length 4·2 inches, wing 2·1, tail 2·0.
From Project Gutenberg
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