grannum

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A form of granum — A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.

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Meanings

noungrannum (plural grannums)

plural grannums

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of granum (“one's grandmother”).

    Each of 'em has a ſev'ral Gin, / To catch Intelligences in. / Some by the Noſe vvith fumes trapan 'em, / As Dunſtan did the Devil's Grannum.

    1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 175
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