Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bacterial., same as
agglutinating substance . - 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.
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
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"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
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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
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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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