glomerule

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noun

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

OriginLatin glomus →
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Meanings

nounglomerule (plural glomerules)

plural glomerules

  1. biologyA head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

    glomerules of the thallus

    1891, Grevillea
    1 more example

    O. fragrantissima[…]Inflorescence of alternate sessile glomerules ½–¾ in. diam., each containing 8–12 nearly sessile heads[…]

    1906, Thomas Frederick Cheeseman, Manual of the New Zealand Flora, Compositæ
  2. anatomyA glomerulus.

    The function of the glomerule is to separate the superfluous water from the blood

    1899, John Peter Schmitz, Human Physiology
  3. businessA globule of metal.

Origin

  1. Latinglomus
  2. Englishglomerule

Diminutive of Latin glomus ball.

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