Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of or producing or containing serum;
- Example: "a serous exudate"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Serous \Se"rous\, a. [Cf. F. s['e]reux. See Serum.] (Physiol.)
(a) Thin; watery; like serum; as, the serous fluids.
(b) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands,
membranes, layers. See Serum.
[1913 Webster]
Serous membrane. (Anat.) See under Membrane.
[1913 Webster] Serow
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
serous
adj 1: of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, watery