stramineous
adjUK /stɹəˈmɪn.ɪəs/ · US /stɹəˈmɪn.i.əs/
Etymology From Latin strāmineus, from strāmen (“straw”).
1
Obsolete Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- stramineously