单词 | glomerate |
释义 | glomerateadj. Compactly clustered, having the form of a rounded mass or cluster. Chiefly Botany; also Anatomy (see quot. 1854). ΘΚΠ 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. Obsolete. a. transitive. To roll or wind up into a ball; to gather into a rounded mass. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1793v.1634 |
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