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glomerules

glomerules is the plural of glomerule.

Meaning of glomerule

Noun

glomerule (plural glomerules)

  1. A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
    • glomerules of the thallus1891, Grevillea
  2. A glomerulus.
    • The function of the glomerule is to separate the superfluous water from the blood1899, John Peter Schmitz, Human Physiology
  3. A globule of metal.

Questions about glomerules

What is glomerules the plural of?
Glomerules is the plural of glomerule.

Words near glomerules in the dictionary

  1. glomerulates
  2. glomerulating
  3. glomerulation
  4. glomerulations
  5. glomerule
  6. glomerules
  7. glomeruli
  8. glomeruligenesis
  9. glomerulitides
  10. glomerulitis
  11. glomerulo-

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