glandular
/ˈɡlan.djʊl.ə/US/ˈɡlæn.d͡ʒəl.ɚ/
glandular adjective: pertaining to a gland or glands.
Adjective
glandular (not comparable)
Noun
glandular (plural glandulars)
- A food supplement made from glands.
- Then Mr. Rothschild states that there is a wealth of studies attesting to the beneficence of glandulars in the human diet, only to fall into the same error he lays on Dr. Holub: failing to cite a single one.1982, Vegetarian Times, number 61, page 6
- An interesting event happened in my house that buttressed my appreciation of glandulars. I previously mentioned our cats, raised on a raw food diet that includes as many glands and other organs as we can obtain, […]2010, Roy Mankovitz, The Wellness Project, page 158
glandular meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu
glandular in Hindi
- pertaining to a gland or glands
- स्रावी srāvī
glandular in Tamil
- சுரப்பிக்குரிய
glandular in Urdu
- غدودی
Examples of glandular in a sentence
- That whacks up his glandular system and cool - o' - I'm here!
- The idiosoma of all ticks carries a number of sensory and glandular structures.
- The glandular and rhabdiferous cells, on the other hand, derived from the archeocytes.
Synonyms of glandular
Forms of glandular
| plural | glandulars |
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Origin of glandular
Mid 18th century borrowing from French glandulaire, from glandule (“small gland”) + -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), from Latin glandulae (“glands of the throat”); equivalent to glandule + -ar.
Words formed from glandular
- aglandular
- biglandular
- cryptoglandular
- dermoglandular
- eglandular
- excitoglandular
- extraglandular
- fibroglandular
- glandular fever
- glandularity
- glandularly
- hypoglandular
- interglandular
- intraglandular
- lymphoglandular
- microglandular
- multiglandular
- musculoglandular
- neuroglandular
- nonglandular
- oculoglandular
- periglandular
- pluriglandular
- polyglandular
- pseudoglandular
- quadriglandular
- retroglandular
- subglandular
- triglandular
- tubuloglandular
- ulceroglandular
- unglandular
- uniglandular
- villoglandular
Phrases with glandular
Words that rhyme with glandular
Questions about glandular
- What does glandular mean?
- Glandular means pertaining to a gland or glands.
- What is glandular in Hindi?
- Glandular in Hindi is स्रावी (srāvī). See Glandular meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is glandular?
- Glandular can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce glandular?
- Glandular is pronounced /ˈɡlan.djʊl.ə/ (UK).
Words near glandular in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glandular (page history and authors); glandular (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glandular (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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