stramineous

[ struh-min-ee-uhs ]

adjective

1. of or resembling straw.
2. straw-colored; yellowish.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stramineous¹

1615–25; < Latin strāmineus of straw, equivalent to strāmin- (stem of strāmen straw; akin to stratum ) + -eus -eous

Example Sentences

Taller and mostly stouter than the type; pistillate spikes one or two, often staminate at top, yellow or stramineous; perigynium longer, gradually produced into a conspicuous and more or less toothed beak, prominently few-nerved, yellow, broader and usually longer than the blunt scale.

From Project Gutenberg

Description.—Above brownish olive; head black, mixed with white and surmounted by narrow elongated black crest-feathers; wings blackish, outer web of external rectrix whitish; beneath pale stramineous, throat and breast white, densely striated with black; under wing-coverts white; bill yellowish, with a black tip; feet black: whole length 4·2 inches, wing 2·1, tail 2·0.

From Project Gutenberg

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