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grume

English

Etymology

From Latin grumus (“little heap”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??u?m/
  • Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

grume (plural grumes)

  1. A thick semisolid
  2. A clot (of blood)

Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??ym/

Noun

grume f (plural grumes)

  1. log (wood)

Further reading

  • “grume” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

grume f

  1. plural of gruma

Latin

Noun

gr?me

  1. vocative singular of gr?mus

Middle English

Noun

grume

  1. Alternative form of grome

grume From the web:


grumous

English

Etymology

grume +? -ous

Adjective

grumous (comparative more grumous, superlative most grumous)

  1. Resembling grume; thick and lumpy; soft and semisolid
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.188:
      The emergency room was filled with people bleeding. Grumous battlers with misshapen heads.

Translations

Anagrams

  • sour gum, sourgum

grumous From the web:

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