glome

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UK/ˈɡləʊm/US/ˈɡloʊm/

noun

One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.

OriginLatin glomus →
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Meanings

glome1

nounglome (plural glomes)

plural glomes

  1. anatomyOne of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  2. biologyA globular head of flowers.
  3. geometryA hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

glome2

verbglome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

present singular third person glomes · participle present gloming · participle past glomed · past glomed

  1. obsoleteTo look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.

    Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean, Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

    a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate
noun
  1. obsoletegloom or gloam

Origin

glome · noun

  1. Latinglomus“a ball”
  2. Englishglome

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

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glome · verb, noun

  1. Old Englishglōm“gloaming, twilight, darkness”
  2. Middle English*gloom
  3. Englishglome

An alteration of gloom, from Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”). More at gloom.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with glome

homeromRomechromefoampoemgenomeomdometomeJeromecombohmroamnomeholmloambromecromemomerecombpomezomerehome
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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

glome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glome

MLA

“glome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glome. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glome,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glome.

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