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granum en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao.
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A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
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granum en · NOUN · etymology 2
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(obsolete, regional) 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 Devils 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: