a. [ad. L. strūmōs-us, f. strūma STRUMA: see -OSE.]

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  1.  Bot. Having a struma; strumiferous.

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1841.  Lindley, Elem. Bot., 46. Filaments are sometimes … strumose, when a tubercle forms upon their face.

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1849.  Balfour, Man. Bot., § 398. In fig. 313, a represents such a staminiferous appendage found on the inner side of the base of the filament, f, which is hence called appendiculate, or sometimes strumose.

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1864.  M. G. Campbell, in Intell. Observ., IV. 249. The capsule [of Dicranium. heteromallum] is … coloured of a reddish brown, with a somewhat, but never distinctly, strumose neck.

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  2.  = STRUMOUS a. 1, 2.

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1850.  in Ogilvie.

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1898.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Strumose, scrofulous; of, pertaining to, or affected by struma.

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