agminate
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from New Latin agminātus, from the Classical Latin agmen (“a troop”, oblique stem: agmin-) + -ātus (“-ate”). Compare the Latin agminātim (“in hosts”, “in hordes”, adverb).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăgʹmĭnāt, IPA(key): /ˈæɡmɪneɪt/
Adjective edit
agminate (comparative more agminate, superlative most agminate)
- (biology) Grouped together.
- the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine
Translations edit
biology: grouped together
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)