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单词 glomerate
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glomerateadj.

/ˈɡlɒmərət/
Etymology: < Latin glomerātus, past participle of glomerāre : see glomerate v.
Compactly clustered, having the form of a rounded mass or cluster. Chiefly Botany; also Anatomy (see quot. 1854).
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > clustered, crowded, or growing in tufts
caespitose1793
glomerate1793
coacervate1845
clustered1861
stipate1871
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. I4 Glomerata..spica-panicula, a glomerate spike... The glomerate panicle is exemplified in Poa ciliaris.
1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 35 Pan. 1-rowed, superdecompound, glomerate.
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes iv. §69. 68 These zoophytes have generally a form irregularly glomerate, rather than symmetrically globular.
1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Glomerate, Anat. Applied to glands that are formed of a clue, as it were, of sanguineous vessels having an excretory duct but no cavity.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 147 Cymes glomerate.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 413/2 Glomerate, compactly clustered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

glomeratev.

Etymology: < Latin glomerāt-, participial stem of glomerāre to form into a ball or mass, to collect, < glomer- , glomus ball, etc.: see glome n.
Obsolete.
a. transitive. To roll or wind up into a ball; to gather into a rounded mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > agglomerate or conglomerate > into a ball
to round up1615
glomerate1655
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. ii. 25 in Church-hist. Brit. Gathering their votes commonly written, and..glomerated, i.e. rolled and roundled up in a piece of paper.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Glomerate, to wind round, to assemble, to gather, or heap round together.
1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Glomerate, to gather into a ball or sphere. A filamentous substance gathered into a ball is said to be glomerated, but discontinuous particles are conglobated.
b. intransitive. To wind or twist about.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course
to turn and winda1398
wreathea1500
twine1553
indent1567
virea1586
crank1594
to dance the hay or hays1600
maze1605
serpent1606
to indent the way1612
cringlea1629
indenture1631
circumgyre1634
twist1635
glomerate1638
winda1682
serpentine1767
meander1785
zigzag1787
zag1793
to worm one's way1822
vandyke1828
crankle1835
thread the needle1843
switchback1903
rattlesnake1961
zig1969
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 313 They glomerate and wind in dances.

Derivatives

ˈglomerated adj. = glomerate adj.
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1812 Pennant's Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. vi. 359 S[erpula] with a round spiral shell, glomerated, and having three raised ridges on the upper side.
ˈglomerating adj. winding about.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving in winding course
crangling1608
winding1613
glomerating1634
mazy1726
zigzag1752
zigzagging1827
switchback1887
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 92 We rode ouer, and about hils so high and glomerating, as if Olympus had beene cut into Dedalian Labyrinths.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 66 A river, which from Caucasus after many glomerating dances increases Indus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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