grumous
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Resembling or containing grume; thick; viscid; clotted: as, grumous blood.
Examples
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The wound was a neat grumous slit in the low heavy forehead, so unremarkable that it could have been used for a forensic ballistics demonstration of the effect of discharge at six feet.
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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!
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The juice of a euphorbiaceous plant (Sapium aucuparium), which also yields caoutchouc, is so glutinous that it is used to catch parrots. The substance which falls down in grumous and filamentous clots is not pure caoutchouc, but perhaps a mixture of this substance with caseum and albumen.
Note
The word 'grumous' comes from a Latin root meaning 'little heap; hill'.
