glomerous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin glomerosus, from glomus. See glome.
Adjective edit
glomerous (comparative more glomerous, superlative most glomerous)
- (rare or India) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
- 1847, George Johnston, A History of the British Zoophytes, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 276:
- The entire polypidom rarely exceeds half an inch in length, but when perfect the branches are bent and intertwined so as to form a little glomerous mass.
- 1978, A. Chandrahasan Johnson et al., “Relation of vascular and osseous changes in leprosy”, in Skeletal Radiology, volume 3, pages 36–41:
- The glomerous vascular arrangement may render adjacent tissue ischemic by permitting by-pass of an already marginal blood supply.
- 2004, Lourens Poorter, F. N. Kouame, Franciscus Bongers, W. D. Hawthorne, Biodiversity of West African Forests: An Ecological Atlas of Woody Plant Species, page 250:
- Hymenocoleus axillaris Robbr.
Rubiaceae
[…]
Inflorescence: axillary, 2-7 pairs of glomerous inflorescences each with approx. 20 flowers
Usage notes edit
Rare outside the Indian English phrase "glomerous fig-tree" (Ficus racemosa).