glomerate

Borrowed from Latin glomerātus, perfect passive participle of glomero (“to glomerate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

glomerate (third-person singular simple present glomerates, present participle glomerating, simple past and past participle glomerated)

1. To gather or curl into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass.

   glomerated fig tree

glomerate (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Gathered together in a somewhat spherical mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

   Synonym: glomerated

   glomerate gland

   glomerate flower

   glomerate mass of crystals

• “glomerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• algometer, geometral

glomerāte

1. vocative masculine singular of glomerātus

• “glomerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glomerate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.