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Etymology

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From cluster +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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clusterous (comparative more clusterous, superlative most clusterous)

  1. (rare) Grouped together in a cluster or clusters; clustered.
    • 1582, Virgil, translated by Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis, section I:
      Three stags sturdye were vnder / Neere the seacost gating, / theym slot thee clusterus heerdflock / In greene frith browsing.
    • 1930, Hart Crane, “Cape Hatteras”, in The Bridge:
      With June the mountain laurel broke through green / And filled the forest with what clustrous sheen!