Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Uniting as glue; tending to cause adhesion.
  • noun Any viscous substance which agglutinates or unites other substances by causing adhesion; any application which causes bodies to adhere together.
  • noun In bacterial., same as agglutinating substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
  • noun Any viscous substance which causes agglutination

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Examples

  • "God," she said, staring down at the lumps of cheddar that pockmarked the agglutinant gobbet of macaroni.

    In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

  • The scientists divide all the languages of the earth into three great groups: first, the monosyllabic, {96} isolating, radical, or asynthetic languages; second, the agglutinant, terminational, or polysynthetic languages; third, the inflectional languages.

    The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid

  • Foliafi prate - nera ac mollia ex polenta illmantur, infiammationem mitiaat: ambufiis €r canis morfjbm illituprojunt. vicera qu£ dehifiut infifiula, agglutinant: ijs quipoddgra tentantur, cumfeuo tauri no aut hiranofrofunt lilitafoha. proceffu yerb temporis e linea candtdafifi - hbw. caule rubenteiiunceo, Ldt Colocynthis. lt.

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550

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