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Definition of Strumose
1. a. Strumous.
Definition of Strumose
1. having a struma [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strumose
Literary usage of Strumose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... not gibbous but strumose, smooth; teeth of the peristome narrower: male flowers
near the base of the innovations, not close to the ..."
2. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"Leaf-cells papillose ; capsule not strumose 2. Leaf-cells smooth (except faintly
so in some specimens of Ceratodon) 3. 2. Peristome small, teeth narrow and ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Same as strumose. < L. struma, a scrofulous tumor, < struere, pile up, build:
see structure.'] 1. In pathol. ... The state or character of being strumose or ..."
4. A synopsis of the British mosses by Charles Codrington Pressick Hobkirk (1873)
"... caps. unequal, base strumose. SECT. II. St. rooting in all parts, leafy ; 1.
spreading, ... strumose smooth oblong and curved ; lid beaked. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... leaves lanceolate-subulate, serrate at the apex, somewhat secund, with a broad
costa; capsule gibbous, short, globose-oval, narrowly annulate, strumose. ..."
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