Definitions for Struma

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Struma stru·ma

Spelling: [stroo-muh]

IPA: /ˈstru mə/

Struma is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in Struma (amrstu).

Definitions for Struma

noun

1. Pathology. goiter.
2. Botany. a cushionlike swelling on an organ, as that at one side of the base of the capsule in many mosses.
3. a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.

Origin of Struma

1555-65; New Latin; Latin strūma scrofulous tumor

Examples for Struma

Laurentius reports that Francis I, when a prisoner in Spain, cured a great number of people of struma (scrofula).

On the struma front in 1917 a bombing plane was being put back into its hangar.

She was one of those beautiful white-and-pink creatures who are rotten with struma.

There was a lull on the struma, he said, his tired, refined voice concealing the irony.

They therefore have no significance as far as struma is concerned.

Now he was back on the struma; and perhaps next time Captain Meredith got news there would be another gap in that little staff.