glomerate

[ glom-er-it, -uh-reyt ]

adjective

1. compactly clustered.

glomerate

/ ˈɡlɒmərɪt /

adjective

1. gathered into a compact rounded mass
2. wound up like a ball of thread
3. anatomy (esp of glands) conglomerate in structure

Other Words From

• non·glomer·ate adjective
• non·glomer·ate·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of glomerate¹

1785–95; < Latin glomerātus wound or formed into a ball (past participle of glomerāre ), equivalent to glomer- (stem of glomus ) ball-shaped mass + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of glomerate¹

C18: from Latin glomerāre to wind into a ball, from glomus ball

Example Sentences

Stems with long internodes and few forks; glomerate cymes few, slender-peduncled; bracts broadly lanceolate; fruit glabrous or pubescent, 2´´ long.

From Project Gutenberg

Strict, 1–3° high; lower leaves twice-pinnately parted, the upper pinnatifid; lobes linear, acute, in the lower leaves cut-toothed; heads in short axillary spikes or clusters, crowded in a narrow and glomerate leafy panicle.—Gravelly banks, Ohio to Tenn., Mo., and northwestward; rapidly extending eastward by railroad to Buffalo, Philadelphia, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

Panicles contracted or glomerate, on branching rigid culms from scaly creeping rootstocks; leaves short and narrow.

From Project Gutenberg

Panicle glomerate and lobed, strict, 2–4´ long; glumes 1½–2´´ long, ovate-oblong, not acuminate; hairs scarcely or little shorter than the flower, and as long as those of the rudiment; awn from the middle of the thin flowering glume or lower, and barely exceeding it.

From Project Gutenberg

A. retrofléxus, L. Roughish and more or less pubescent; leaves dull green, long-petioled, ovate or rhombic-ovate, undulate; the thick spikes crowded in a stiff or glomerate panicle; bracts awn-pointed, rigid, exceeding the acute or obtuse sepals.—Cultivated grounds, common; indigenous southwestward.

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