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serous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective serous has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
serous, a. [Cf. F. séreux. See Serum.].
Thin; watery; like serum; as, the serous fluids. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
serous, adj. of or like or producing serum; watery.
Idiom
serous gland (or membrane) a gland or membrane with a serous secretion.
Derivative
serosity n.
Etymology
F s{eacute}reux or med.L serosus (as SERUM)
THESAURUS
serous
bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, excretory, humoral, ichorous, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational, lacteal, lacteous, phlegmy, purulent, pussy, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, sanious, secretional, secretive, secretory, seminal, sialagogic, spermatic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, watering, wateryROGET THESAURUS
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Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.
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