a. [f. L. strāmine-us (f. strāmen straw) + -OUS.]
1. Consisting of or relating to straw; fig. valueless.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. IV. vii. (1624), 148. His sole study is for words, that … not a syllable [be] misplaced, to set out a stramineous subiect.
1641. C. Burges, Serm., 5 Nov., 33. Much ado made about a supposed stramineous Miracle of Garnets face found in a straw.
1658. J. Robinson, Eudoxa, Calm Ventil., II. 123. Upon a suddain approach of the warmed Electrick, the stramineous bodies will, at first, a little recede.
1900. Saintsbury, Hist. Criticism, I. 66. He not only seems to be dealing with men of straw, but answers them with, as Luther would say, a most ‘stramineous’ argument.
2. Bot. Straw-colored; dull pale yellow.
1845–50. Mrs. Lincoln, Lect. Bot., 204/1. Stramineous, straw-like, straw-coloured.
1871. W. A. Leighton, Lichen-flora, 99. Ochroleucous or stramineous.
