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glomerous

glomerous adjective: gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.

Adjective

glomerous (comparative more glomerous, superlative most glomerous)

  1. (India, rare) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
    • The entire polypidom rarely exceeds half an inch in length, but when perfect the branches are bent and intertwined so as to form a little glomerous mass.1847, George Johnston, A History of the British Zoophytes, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 276
    • The glomerous vascular arrangement may render adjacent tissue ischemic by permitting by-pass of an already marginal blood supply.1978, A. Chandrahasan Johnson et al., “Relation of vascular and osseous changes in leprosy”, in Skeletal Radiology, volume 3, pages 36–41

Forms of glomerous

comparativemore glomerous
superlativemost glomerous

Origin of glomerous

From Latin glomerosus, from glomus. See glome.

Questions about glomerous

What does glomerous mean?
Glomerous means gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
What part of speech is glomerous?
Glomerous is an adjective.

Words near glomerous in the dictionary

  1. glomeromycetes
  2. glomeromycetous
  3. glomeromycotan
  4. glomeromycotean
  5. glomeroporphyritic
  6. glomerous
  7. glomerul-
  8. glomerular
  9. glomerular capsule
  10. glomerular capsules
  11. glomerular lipidoses

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