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Geum vs Grum - What's the difference?

geum | grum |

As a noun geum

is any of the genus genus: Geum of perennial herbaceous plants.

As an adjective grum is

morose, stern, surly, sullen.

geum

English

(wikipedia geum)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the genus of perennial herbaceous plants.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 13, author=Anne Raver, title=A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The circles, which were ablaze with daffodils this spring, are now afloat with airy geum , cosmos, acidanthera and dahlias. }}

    grum

    English

    Adjective

    (grummer)
  • Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 58:
    • She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
  • Low, deep in the throat; guttural
    • a grum voice

    Synonyms

    * glum * grim * sour

    Derived terms

    * grumly * grumness ----