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English
Etymology
From Latin strāmineus, from strāmen (“straw”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
stramineous (comparative more stramineous, superlative most stramineous)
- Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James 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.
- (botany) Straw-coloured.