agglutinating

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'love'), the agglutinating ('lovely'), and the polysynthetic ('loving,' 'loved').

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  1. In philology, characterized by agglutination; agglutinate (which see). The natives [of the southern islands of the Fuegian Archipelago] … speak an agglutinating language, current from the middle of Beagle passage to the southernmost islands about Cape Horn. Science, III. 168.
  2. Agglutinating substance in bacteriology, the substance which causes agglutination. Also called agglutinin (which see).

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