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Grumous

adjective
1.
Transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass.  Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose.  "Curdled milk" , "Grumous blood"






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"Grumous" Quotes from Famous Books



... spring. In the best known species, Tilletia caries, they constitute the "bunt" of wheat. The peculiarities of germination will be alluded to hereafter. 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. It is very difficult to detect any threads associated with the spores. The species attack the flowers and anthers of composite and polygonaceous plants, the leaves, culms, and germen of grasses, &c., and are popularly known as "smuts." In Urocystis and Thecaphora, the spores are ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... do not care for white? What if we are so constituted that its insipidity sickens us as much as the most poisonous and putrescent colours which Blake ever mixed to paint hell and sin? Nay, if those grumous and speckly viscosities of evil green, orange, poppy purple, and nameless hues, are the only things ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee

... thigh, and with flesh like some black-blooded bullock of ocean breed, his unsavoury meat attracts a most repulsive assemblage, not only of customers, but of flies and wasps, which no flapping will keep off from his grumous liver. The sword-fish cuts up into large bloodless slices, which look on the stall like so many fillets of very white veal, and might pass for such, but that the head and shoulders are fixed upon a long lance, high ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various



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