stramineous
English
Etymology
From Latin strāmineus, from strāmen (“straw”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɹəˈmɪn.ɪəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /stɹəˈmɪn.i.əs/
Adjective
stramineous (comparative more stramineous, superlative most stramineous)
- Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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.
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- (botany) Straw-coloured.