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stru·ma

 (stro͞o′mə)
n. pl. stru·mae (-mē) or stru·mas
1.
a. See scrofula.
b. See goiter.
2. Botany A cushionlike swelling at the base of a moss capsule.
[Latin strūma, scrofulous tumor.]
stru·mat′ic (-măt′ĭk), stru′mose′ (-mōs′), stru′mous (-məs) adj.

Stru·ma

 (stro͞o′mə)
A river, about 415 km (260 mi) long, of western Bulgaria and northeast Greece flowing southward to an inlet of the Aegean Sea.
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These other poor devils, worried, stiff, strumous, awkward, vapid, and rather coarse, with here and there a passably pretty woman, are European kings, queens, grand-dukes, and the like.
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518" purely pathological; the figures in it being simply illustrations of the scrofulous of strumous diathesis.
Painting for reputation: the Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin, and the Victorian press

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