stramineous

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English

Etymology

From Latin strāmineus, from strāmen (“straw”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

stramineous (comparative more stramineous, superlative most stramineous)

  1. Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
      Their wits indeed serve them to that sole purpose, to make sport […]; in all other discourse, dry, barren, stramineous, dull and heavy, here lies their genius, in this they alone excel, please themselves and others.
  2. (botany) Straw-coloured.
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