glomerate

American  

[glom-er-it, -uh-reyt] / ˈglɒm ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt /

adjective

1. compactly clustered.

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glomerate British  

/ ˈɡlɒmərɪt /

adjective

1. gathered into a compact rounded mass

2. wound up like a ball of thread

3. anatomy (esp of glands) conglomerate in structure

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Other Word Forms

• nonglomerate adjective
• nonglomerately adverb

Etymology

Origin of glomerate

1785–95; < Latin glomerātus wound or formed into a ball (past participle of glomerāre ), equivalent to glomer- (stem of glomus ) ball-shaped mass + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Disappointingly, the Nixon Administration has so far indicated only that it will back tighter restrictions on con glomerate mergers, part-time farmers and foundations.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an executive whose firm had been taken over by a con glomerate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Panicles contracted or glomerate, on branching rigid culms from scaly creeping rootstocks; leaves short and narrow.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Stems with long internodes and few forks; glomerate cymes few, slender-peduncled; bracts broadly lanceolate; fruit glabrous or pubescent, 2´´ long.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa