Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of straw; strawy.
- Like straw; light.
- Straw-colored; pale-yellowish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Strawy; consisting of straw.
- adjective Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to or made of
straw ; having little value,insubstantial . - adjective botany Straw-coloured.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin strāmineus, from strāmen ("straw").
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Examples
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His sole study is for words, that they be — Lepidae lexeis compostae, ut tesserulae omnes, not a syllable misplaced, to set out a stramineous subject: as thine is about apparel, to follow the fashion, to be terse and polite, 'tis thy sole business: both with like profit.
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[2171] Tully holds, and for this they are often applauded, in all other discourse, dry, barren, stramineous, dull and heavy, here lies their genius, in this they alone excel, please themselves and others.
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Glistening yellow in the stramineous light, the worms boiled and reared and thudded in fury.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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