Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany A dense compact cluster of flowers.
- noun Anatomy A glomerulus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glomerulus.
- noun Specifically In botany: A cymose inflorescence condensed into the form of a head, as in the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and globe-thistle.
- noun A soredium. Hoblyn. Also
glome . - noun In certain Ustilagineœ, a cluster of spores which cohere together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.
- noun (Anat.) A glomerulus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a
cyme , as in the flowering dogwood. - noun anatomy A
glomerulus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a compacted or sessile cyme
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin glomerulus; see glomerulus.]
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Diminutive of Latin glomus ball.
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