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conglobate

American  
[kon-gloh-beyt, kong-, kong-gloh-beyt] / kɒnˈgloʊ beɪt, kɒŋ-, ˈkɒŋ gloʊˌbeɪt /

adjective

  1. formed into a ball.

verb (used with or without object)

conglobated, conglobating

  1. to collect or form into a ball or rounded mass.

conglobate British  
/ ˈkɒŋɡləʊˌbeɪt /

verb

  1. to form into a globe or ball

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. a rare word for globular

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • conglobately adverb
  • conglobation noun

Etymology

Origin of conglobate

1625–35; < Latin conglobātus, past participle of conglobāre. See conglobe, -ate 1

Example Sentences

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The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The mouths of the absorbent system drink up a part or the whole of these fluids, and carry them forwards by their living power to their respective glands, which are called conglobate glands.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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