Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
glandular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or composed of
glands ;glandular ,glandulose
Etymologies
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Examples
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Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically.
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Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically.
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The inner membrane of the first three venters is fibrous (like the gustatory papillæ of the tongue) and not glandulous; the fourth only being glandulous, as in a man.
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“Don't be alarmed, my glandulous champion, no harm shall come to this fair flower.”
Margaret 1851
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The leaves are oval, fpear-ibaped, long* fmooth, ferrated, green on both fides, and have glandulous footftalks.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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These united qualities correct acids in the stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics.
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AUSTRALIS, but different in the leaves, which are here ciliated at the margin, very glandulous on the back; and in the flowers, which are smaller, the petals more obtuse, and having a broad, white line of pubescence round the margin at the back.] 121 [L.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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AUSTRALIS, but different in the leaves, which are here ciliated at the margin, very glandulous on the back; and in the flowers, which are smaller, the petals more obtuse, and having a broad, white line of pubescence round the margin at the back.] [** L.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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