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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. See Synonyms at social.
  2. adj. Tending to move in or form a group with others of the same kind: gregarious bird species.
  3. adj. Botany Growing in groups that are close together but not densely clustered or matted.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Disposed to live in flocks or herds; inclined to gather in companies; not preferring solitude or restricted companionship: as, cattle and sheep are gregarious animals; men are naturally gregarious.
  2. In botany, growing in open clusters, not matted together.
  3. By Drude and subsequent writers gregarious plants are further determined as growing in patches among other vegetation, thus contrasting with social species, which dominate the whole ground.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a person Describing one who enjoys being in crowds and socializing.
  2. adj. zoology Of animals that travel in herds or packs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  2. adj. (of plants) growing in groups that are close together
  3. adj. (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species

Etymologies

  1. From Latin gregārius. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin gregārius, belonging to a flock, from grex, greg-, flock; see ger- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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