Marasmius (marasmius)

[NL. (Fries, 1836-8), marasmoid (ma-raz'moid), a. [ Pining atrophy, Marasmus , and wide wasting pestilence. All their lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs of exile and its fears The wasting famine of the heart they fed, And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears. Long fellow , Jewish Cemetery at Newport. Milton , P. L., xi. 487.